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"He shows me a machine on a table with two things for your ears like the penny-in-the-slot affairs. I puts it on and listens. A female voice starts up reading headlines of murders, accidents and other political casualities. "'What you hear, says the farmer, 'is a synopsis of to-day's news in the New York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco papers.
Well, all you got to do is mark it up twenty per cent. and announce that you'll chip in that much towards the fund. Get me?" She never bats an eye, Aunty don't. "To be sure," says she. "I think that is precisely what we had in mind all the time; only we er " "I know," says I. "You hadn't been playin' the relief act strong enough. But that's what'll get you into the headlines.
And there in black headlines he read "The only interview Hugh Kinross has ever granted." "A lady beards the lion in his den and extracts most interesting particulars." "The eccentricities of a great author." And this perfervid and most serious account was in truth very funny. He found himself quite unable to resist so unique an opportunity of raising a roar of laughter among his readers.
With the flaming of that morning's headlines announcing J.J. Malone's illness a spirit of nervousness began stalking in the Street. Of this restlessness Hamilton Burton was duly apprised and while he scornfully laughed at blind luck he acknowledged the power of his Star, and gave thanks to his own unnamed gods.
Alice, by her very presence, her calm acceptance of life as it shaped itself, soothed Isabelle's restlessness, suggested trust and confidence. "You are a dear," she whispered to her cousin. "I am so glad you are to be near me in St. Louis!" Isabelle saw the fat headlines in the Pittsburg paper that the porter brought her, "Congressman Darnell and his wife killed!"
To-day it has taken its place as one of those accepted miracles which are worked without heat or headlines by men who do the job nearest their hand and seldom fuss about their reputations. But less than sixteen years ago the length and breadth of it was one crazy hell of murder, torture, and lust, where every man who had a sword used it till he met a stronger and became a slave.
He wanted it as a diversion to the conversation merely, for his interest in the doings of Surrey and Yorkshire had waned to the point of complete indifference in competition with Mrs. Windlebird's news. Equally mechanically he unfolded it and glanced at front page; and, as he did do, a flaring explosion of headlines smote his eye. Out of the explosion emerged the word "WILD-CATS".
The doctor examined Hart carefully and laughed heartily. "No headlines for you, Old Sport," was his diagnosis. "If it had been two inches to the left it would have undermined the carotid artery as far as the Red Front Drug Store in Flatbush and Back Again.
Something picturesque, something that newspapers will splash with big headlines." I do not think that Mrs. Ascher heard this. She was looking at the upper part of the window with a sort of rapt, Joan of Arc expression of face. I felt that she was meditating lofty things, probably trying to hit on some appropriate form of self-sacrifice.
It was only to be expected that the newspapers would break out in a rash of black headlines over the murder of a prominent London financier. By hook or by crook, journalism would triumph. He had often been amazed at the extent and accuracy of news items concerning the most secret inquiries. Of course the reporters sometimes missed the heart of an intricate case.
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