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I should add that this simile of the aviary and its occupants was ominous, for my tuneful choir was relentlessly slaughtered; the bottom of the cage was strewn with feathers! The big dailies collected the criticisms and published them in their own columns with the grim irony of exaggerated head-lines.
When I had told him, he showed me a newspaper clipping of an article with the head-lines, 'Mysterious Disappearance of a Young Girl. For some moments I stood as if turned to stone, gazing stupidly at the paper. Then troubled thoughts took possession of me. 'What shall I do?
"Watson, would you have the kindness to take the paper and to read me the paragraph in question?" Underneath the vigorous head-lines which our client had quoted I read the following suggestive narrative: Late last night, or early this morning, an incident occurred at Lower Norwood which points, it is feared, to a serious crime. Mr.
And then in two columns of leaded type, under a pyramid of head-lines, was told the story of Sylvia Morgan. Flushed with enthusiasm, the account said, she had come from Idaho to help her uncle, the candidate. Although only eighteen years of age she was twenty-two she had displayed a most remarkable perception and grasp of politics and of great issues.
That is why it is possible to drink your morning coffee without nausea for it, over the head-lines of forty thousand casualties at Ypres, but to push back abruptly at a three-line notice of little Tony's, your corner bootblack's, fatal dive before a street-car.
One may shout oneself hoarse at the delivery of a speech which, if served upon printed page, would never prompt the reader to cast his hat to the ceiling. No mere print under bold head-lines did Abbott read, but rather the changing lights and shadows in great black eyes. It was marvelous how Fran could project past experiences upon the screen of the listener's perception.
They are preparing for a general assault. There will be heavy fighting to-morrow. Why, that is to-day!" Mrs. Valentin held the newspaper at arm's length. "Is there anything more? I can read only the head-lines." The girl took the paper and looked at it with a certain reluctance, narrowing her eyelids. "Mother, there was something else in Gladys's letter.
At any rate, we were having it hot and heavy, and I was trying to think of some good and unselfish actions I had done, when we heard the back door of the cottage open and close, then somebody moving in the hall. "Mrs. Poggi turned green not white green! And I began to picture the head-lines in the morning papers! 'The Bachelor and the Policeman's Wife, they seemed to say.
He lighted a cigar and settled himself in an easy chair before the fire, glad of the luxury of peace and quiet after his circuitous journey and the tumult of doubt and question that had shaken him. He slit the wrapper of the Washington newspaper that Oscar had brought from the mountain post-office and scanned the head-lines.
Michaels or Teller, the latter being the starting-point for the new Bluestone and Kougarok districts; and the Nome dailies were issuing sensational extras with large head-lines telling that "Fifteen Hundred People" were "Starving at the Mouth of the Yukon" at St. Michaels, one hundred and fifty miles away.
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