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...professor of English have two books each on the list. "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" is the title of one of Haskins' volumes on Mediaeval history. His other work is a second edition of his "Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science." Rollins edits the "The Pack of Autolycus", a collection of 17th century ballads by Anthony Wood, and A Paradise of Dainty Devices", a resurrection of a collection of Elizabethan verse compiled by Richard and Edwards...
...soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often as an abortionist fumbling with a contraceptive, most frequently as a pornographer raising the dark symbol of a dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over a fairly long period Anthony boasted that he had driven 15 persons...
...young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt...
...tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper...
...rest, the President's paragraphs were like a well-trained pack of dogs worrying a clumsy bear to death...