"Newspaper article" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the story. In a deserted brewery behind the lines the vats were fitted up as baths for men from the trenches, and the furnaces heated ovens in which horrible clothing was baked. This brewery had been immune from attack until an officially sanctioned newspaper article specified its exact position. A few days after the article appeared, in fact, as soon as a copy of the paper reached Germany, a thunderstorm of shells broke on the brewery. Out of it poured a helter-skelter stream of stark-naked ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... carefully gummed various entries from the biographical dictionaries in which mention was made of John Dampier and his career. There followed a eulogistic newspaper article containing an account of the picture which had won the artist his Medaille d'Honneur at the Salon two years before. Then came a piece of foolscap headed "General remarks," and here were written the following words:—"Lives quietly; is popular ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... suddenly, a horrid newspaper article appeared which conveyed suggestions extremement desagreables. It insinuated, ma chere, that "things are not what they seem"—at any rate things in the bill of fare at the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 • Various
... the investigations of certain Italian scientists, concerning the effect of the violet and ultra-violet light rays upon the cells of the brain. He could not recollect just what the conclusions had been, but he did remember that the newspaper article spoke of the popular superstition that moonlight could cause insanity. He knew Hartmann to be a scientist of vast ability and resource, and realized that back of the elaborate preparations he had evidently made must lie ...
— The Ivory Snuff Box • Arnold Fredericks
... time it would have been feasible; now it was impossible, for all the invaders were within the small circle of projectors, and the ground outside this circle was never free from the diverging rays of the light. Also, as one newspaper article replied, even with such a suit of armor a man with a machine gun could do little, for the light would instantly ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings |
