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...Finally the vote came: 45 for, and 41 against, Steck. Whereupon Senator Albert B. Cummins left the Senate Chamber, returned escorting his new colleague, led him up to Vice President Dawes, had him sworn...
...lights a cigarette. Uncle Bliss, a big-game hunter who calmly takes a snifter out of his pocket flask at a strictly temperance dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...
...quarrel between Poultney Bigelow, American author, and H. G. Wells, paradoxical British internationalist, waxes interesting. In Mr. Bigelow's recent book of reminiscences, he criticised the manners of Mr. Wells in no half-hearted way. Whereupon the British author administered through the press of his country the reproof valiant. Attached to his declaration was the thundering footnote, "American papers please copy...