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Unmasked. In York, Pa., a lone masked thief waited impatiently for bar-owner Isaac Hulshart to hand over the contents of the cash register, suddenly whipped off his mask, dropped his gun and fled, crying: "You take these. I'm too nervous...
...Landor, Shelley wrote the poetry by which he is best remembered. He thought Keats "a rival who will surpass me" and invited the dying poet to join him; Keats was touched but had enough sense not to. After the "Peterloo massacre" of working people in Manchester, Shelley wrote his Mask of Anarchy, a revolutionary poem of memorable drive...
...hero is a moth-eaten Santa Claus who finds no takers for his gift of "understanding." The carnival figure of Death appears, as in a medieval morality play, gives him a skull mask and persuades him to be a salesman. In the guise of Science, Santa Claus successfully sells "knowledge" now, not understanding. Something awful happens to his customers, however. Santa Claus then has to face a defrauded, angry...
Santa Claus is saved from being lynched by a child, who sees through the devil's mask and identifies him. And Santa's gift, which no one would take in what Death has described as "an age of salesmanship," finds a touching-and universal-taker...
John's face was a grey, unsmiling mask. This week, he silently clumped back into Goldsborough's small, dimly lit court. The trial for contempt was little more than an unloading of technicalities. It was pretty clear that Judge Goldsborough's mind was made up. This week he found John Lewis guilty of contempt. Lewis' legal position now was really hot. But his bargaining position got better every day as the coal mines remained empty...