From American National Biography Online’s biography of Ben Hecht:
“In 1910 he moved to Chicago and began working as a picture stealer (purloining victims’ pictures from family homes for use in the newspaper) and factotum for the Chicago Journal.”

Hey, is that the Doctor or the Second Coming?

It’s like the opposite of Chicken Soup for the Soul: OSHA’s true stories of teen tragedies.

“We wanted something that was real war – Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head –but they said no.”

and more likely to make one respond to a fundraising letter: the University of Idaho president made it abundantly clear that evolution is the way to go.

My page-a-almost-every-day calendar of Chinese progaganda posters is this weekend featuring a poster of a girl washing her hands in front of a poster of a girl washing her hands, in front of a poster of a girl washing her hands…. Oh, the mind does boggle. It’s fairly entertaining how the background of these posters often feature other propaganda posters.

From Hugo’s Spanish Simplified, a text I would estimate was published in the 1910s:
“Teachers and students are hereby warned that any other book purporting to be Hugo’s Spanish System is nothing of the sort, but merely an imitation of the first edition, with just enough alterations to spoil the arrangement, and make the exercises laughable.*

*We may mention a very amusing instance of this. Not to copy our exercises exactly, the plagiarist altered one of our sentences, ‘Is your brother smoking?’ to ‘Is your sister smoking?’ thus avoiding a charge of copying word for word, but making himself ridiculous in the process.”

DirtyLibrarian recommended threadless, and already I’m thinking about getting some new shirts!