Books with title Bizarre Beings

1996 Critical Reading Skills, The Wild Side: Bizarre Endings (P) by Henry Billings & Melissa Billings ***Features: *15 High Interest Nonfiction Articles *3 Graduated Reading Levels *Exercises That Improve Reading Comprehension and Increase Reading Rate *Charts and Graphs for Tracking Individual Progress *Answer Key ***ISBN-13: 9780890618035 ***Pages: 114

As good form requires that an author mention in his preface the persons to whom he is chiefly indebted, I take this opportunity of stating that during the preparation of this book I became appreciably indebted to Dr. Warren S. Holder, my dentist, Mr. William Vroom, my tailor, Mr. M. Tesshow, my stationer and tobacconist, and Messrs. Acker, Merrall & Condit, my grocers. Although these gentlemen neither "corrected the proofs" of my book nor "saw it through the press," nor allowed me access to rare documents and family letters, nor treated me to intimate accounts of their fathers and great uncles as they knew them; though they did none of these customary things, nevertheless I became decidedly their debtor—and still am. Indeed, without their stimulus this book might never have been written.

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As suitable structure necessitates that a writer cites in his introduction the people to whom he is mostly thankful, Lawton grabs this chance of expressing that through the drafting of this volume he was grateful to Dr. Warren S. Holder, his dentist, Mr. William Vroom, his dressmaker, Mr. M. Tesshow, his stationer and tobacconist, and Messrs. Acker, Merrall & Condit, his salespersons. Though these noblemen neither proofread his work nor observed its publication nor granted him to open intermittent records and family correspondences, nor gave him confidential information of their fathers and great uncles as they discerned them; although they had done nothing of these accustomed matters, nonetheless Lawton was unmistakably their defaulter and he remains to be such. Bizarre contains: I - What-Nots: Unsolicited Personal Adornments; Shelf Culture; Portable Pigeonholes; Simile; The Beatified Race; Jouez Balle; The Art of Packing; Agriculture Indoors; Snowy Bosoms; Interior Desperation; The Writing on the Screen; Musique Glacée; The Care of the Husband; Terminology of Tardiness; Oppressors of the meek; Putting Pedagogy Across; Coaching From the Side-lines; Fast and Loose; The Primrose_ Pathology; Fightier_Than_the_Sword; Enlightenment; Holiday Misgivings; All, All Are Gone, The Old Familiar Façades; My Museum; On Chairs-And Off; II - Minims: The Night of the Fleece; Black Jitney; Light Breakfast; The Man Opposite; Lucy the Literary Agent; The Creeping Fingers; The Man With the Hose; III - Jangles: Those Symphony Concert Programs; How to Know the Instruments; Notes on Pianos; The Life-drama of a Musical Critic; and The Survival of the Fattest. Alexander Lawton Mackall was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a writer, journalist and gastronomy expert and academic.

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Bizarre WHAT-NOTS UNSOLICITED PERSONAL ADORNMENTS Have you ever, on returning home from a round of calls, discovered upon your coat a large, obtrusive spot? Stricken with horror, you wonder how long it has been there. Did you have this adjunct when you appeared before your wealthy aunt? That severe female has never quite approved of you, and now this will finish you as far as she is concerned. Did you exhibit yourself thus disgraced at the Brumleighs'? You recollect that the maid eyed you queerly when she opened the door, and that Mrs. B. had frequent recourse to her lorgnettes. Then, too, both the Greens and the Worthingtons seemed a little stiffer than usual. How did you acquire it, anyhow? It looks and feels like ice cream of a very rich quality; ice cream that has drippled merrily in leaps and bounds. But you had no ice cream today. Neither did you talk to anyone who was having ice cream. Perhaps you have been struck by ice cream, just as people are struck by lightning. The weather does such peculiar things nowadays. I have a gray suit that is a constant prey to spots. Its frail color--a sickly, betwixt-and-between shade, chosen in haste and repented of at leisure--puts it utterly at their mercy. And they flock to it. Things sticky and glutinous pounce avidly upon it; nor is its seat reserved from paints and varnishes. Sauces afflict it. Oils take advantage of its helplessness. Grass bedizens it with garish green. I try my best to protect it--but what can I do? What am I against so many? While I am rescuing my left elbow from the machinations of a passing dish, I unwittingly suffer my right cuff to be enticed by the gravy in my plate. As I walk discreetly in the middle of the sidewalk, an automob

Excerpt from BizarreS good form requires that an author men tion in his preface the persons to whom he is chiefly indebted, I take this opportunity of stating that during the preparation of this book I became appreciably indebted to Dr. Warren S. Holder, my dentist, Mr. William Vroom, my tailor, Mr. M. Tesshow, my sta tioner and tobaccon'ist, and Messrs. Acker, Merrall 6: Condit, my grocers.Although these gentlemen neither cor rected the proofs of my book nor saw it through the press, nor allowed me access to rare documents and family letters, nor treated me to intimate accounts of their fathers and great uncles as they knew them; though they did none of these customary things, neverthe less I became decidedly their debtors - and still am.Indeed, without their stimulus this book might never have been written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from BizarreS good form requires that an author men tion in his preface the persons to whom he is chiefly indebted, I take this opportunity of stating that during the preparation of this book I became appreciably indebted to Dr. Warren S. Holder, my dentist, Mr. William Vroom, my tailor, Mr. M. Tesshow, my sta tioner and tobaccon'ist, and Messrs. Acker, Merrall 6: Condit, my grocers.Although these gentlemen neither cor rected the proofs of my book nor saw it through the press, nor allowed me access to rare documents and family letters, nor treated me to intimate accounts of their fathers and great uncles as they knew them; though they did none of these customary things, neverthe less I became decidedly their debtors - and still am.Indeed, without their stimulus this book might never have been written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.