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““Trilby’s face appeared on dolls, fans, writing paper, puzzles, and there were ice cream bars made in the shape of her feet.””

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“Only the technology has changed. The public’s appetite for sensational true-crime stories has remained exactly the same.”

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“set off a marketing frenzy, during which the heroine’s name was bestowed upon a hat, several shoe designs, candy, toothpaste, soap, a brand of…

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“Elsewhere in the journal, he transcribes the rules laid down by Benjamin Franklin as a prescription for happiness and success: “Eat not to dullness,”…

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“When Halliburton expressed curiosity about this “inconceivable power,” Bob took him into his room, showed him his “immense file of pictures,” and gave him…

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“Largely because of its emphasis on gore, the Illustrated Police News had the highest circulation of any publication in Victorian England.”

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“disobedience, refusal to work, refusal to answer when spoken to, and a determination not to succeed.”

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“Nelles explained that its inmates “could be divided into three groups”: “those who are feeble-minded,” those “of sound mind whose delinquency is associated with…

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“publicly raped by a specially trained giraffe, after which she was torn apart by wild animals.”

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“Why do so many—not all, but many—run to see a crashed plane, or a train, or two autos with numerous dead about? Why? What…

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“Why did they have to keep the heat on in Ed Gein’s house? So the furniture wouldn’t get goose bumps.”

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“the worst rioting in the city’s history when a mob of ten thousand citizens, outraged over the lenient sentence given to one of the…

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“Outraged at having the site of the tragedy transformed into what one observer called a “mass murder amusement park,” an angry mob tore down…

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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was…

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It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

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“I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house or their car or their stuff or whatever, and to them it feels like everything. But they have no idea what it's like to lose everything. I thought I knew, but now I realize even I…

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“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore.…

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'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the…

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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want…

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It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around…

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“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”

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There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

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I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

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“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer…

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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

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