before you know it

Behrends has chiseled the official Senate bust of the disgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew; molded a bronze bust of Andrew Johnson, who became president after Abraham Lincoln ’s assassination, for the Tennessee state capitol; and created a statue of Strom Thurmond, in midstroll, for the lawn of the South Carolina State House in Columbia.

I like things the way they are: just me, myself, and I. No complicated organs and systems and such. Give me the simple life.

You can see why compositors reflexively filled lines to be corrected with etaoin shrdlus.