Other early beginnings of the more elaborate decorative clothing are discerned by anthropologists in the scars made upon the arms and breast as in the case of the Australian black man, and in the figured patterns of tattooing, so remarkably developed by the natives in the islands of the South Pacific Ocean.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton
At the end of the day's business I created a diversion by appearing in the Scheftels board-room, flourishing a handful of $1,000 bills before the newspaper men.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice
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