Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion.

When Paddy married and settled down in Dungloe he found the reason for the unpayableness of the debt.

One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase I-wanter-know! always produces a laugh.

"I was borned over there on yon side that there flat-topped mountain, nigh the mouth of Red Creek.