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...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...
Only way to force the bill on to the floor was for 145 Representatives to sign a petition to withdraw it from the Ways & Means Committee. The petition was started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned...
...been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful...
When we came down to mail a letter in the middle of the morning there was a Maintenance Department man surveying the scene, notebook in hand, probably estimating how much he could charge to move the furniture back. By lunch time all that was left was the lemon pool which had rolled under the radiator...
...advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged best in the Atlantic district...