unearths some literary gems.
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The chimes spilling the incomprehensible hours, each bell with its tongue in its cheek.
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This battle of the toothpaste people for supremacy in the public eye, or rather in the public mouth, may come to something yet.
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Not only have doctors lengthened our lives…playwrights have lengthened our plays.
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Someone tried to sell us an electric clock recently, but we balked. A clock that has no fallibility is singularly unattractive to us as a timepiece. We doubt that we could live with a clock that was always right, any more than with a person who was always right.
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