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...furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with a long hook as the ladlemen walked the dipper over to the mold, popped it through a door in the beehive, poured in 400 Ib. of glass turning from gold to silver as it cooled...
...Justice he jumped into the Seine. Police fished him out. Dripping wet, he got as far as the middle of the Pont de Solférino when he jumped into the Seine again. He landed in front of a large barge, whose sailors pulled him out with a boat-hook and sent him to a hospital...
Edward B. Marks was a hook & eye salesman, peddling songs on the side, when he decided to go into music publishing. The big songs then were "Annie Rooney" (1890), "Daisy Bell" (1892), "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1894). Marks wrote a lyric, "The Lost Child." Joe Stern, a necktie salesman, wrote the music. They plugged their product with colored lantern slides which showed a policeman encountering in the streets a waif, who at the station house turns out to be his long-lost daughter...
Search for Beauty might have begun as a satire on Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's hook-up of health and sex, but it ended by emulating it. Exhibited in an elaborate calisthenic routine are chesty males in shorts; slim females in bathing suits...
...Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years...