I agree about Shaw--he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
William Butler Yates
There's no whisker
It won't soften
Shave 'em close
And not
So often Burma Shave
1942
The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.
Russell Baker
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
1706 Born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17
1718 Begins an apprenticeship in his brother James' printing shop in Boston
1723 Age 17, leaves his family, running away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1724 Moves to London, continuing his training as a printer
1726 Returns to Philadelphia
1728 Opens his own Printing Office in Philadelphia
NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?
We will oil your sewing machine and adjust tension in your home for $1.00.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
1736
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
