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- 2011276052 abstract "It began quietly enough one morning in February 1880, with a mutton-chopped Acme Safe Company salesman knocking on the door of Reverend Morgan Dix, the starchiest clergyman in Manhattan's most respectable church. The salesman was surely misdirected, Reverend Dix explained, he had no need for a safe, and he had not made an appointment. But soon after, used clothes dealers arrived, followed by heavy machinery salesmen, and soon the street filled riotously with wave after wave of solicitor-tormentors, hundreds of funeral directors, horse traders, wigmakers, fellow clergymen, doctors, all insisting they'd been summoned by the bewildered Reverend Dix. And for weeks, it continued in this manner. Reporters from every newspaper in New York camped out to watch the fun, and as the story gained national attention, police and postal officers raced to capture the gleeful prankster-cum-performance artist who was making a mockery of the esteemed Trinity Church.".
- 2011276052 contributor B12164046.
- 2011276052 contributor B12164047.
- 2011276052 created "2011.".
- 2011276052 date "2011".
- 2011276052 date "2011.".
- 2011276052 dateCopyrighted "2011.".
- 2011276052 description "It began quietly enough one morning in February 1880, with a mutton-chopped Acme Safe Company salesman knocking on the door of Reverend Morgan Dix, the starchiest clergyman in Manhattan's most respectable church. The salesman was surely misdirected, Reverend Dix explained, he had no need for a safe, and he had not made an appointment. But soon after, used clothes dealers arrived, followed by heavy machinery salesmen, and soon the street filled riotously with wave after wave of solicitor-tormentors, hundreds of funeral directors, horse traders, wigmakers, fellow clergymen, doctors, all insisting they'd been summoned by the bewildered Reverend Dix. And for weeks, it continued in this manner. Reporters from every newspaper in New York camped out to watch the fun, and as the story gained national attention, police and postal officers raced to capture the gleeful prankster-cum-performance artist who was making a mockery of the esteemed Trinity Church.".
- 2011276052 extent "184 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- 2011276052 identifier "1936365235".
- 2011276052 identifier "9781936365234".
- 2011276052 isPartOf "Collins library ; 7".
- 2011276052 issued "2011".
- 2011276052 issued "2011.".
- 2011276052 language "eng".
- 2011276052 publisher "San Francisco : McSweeneys Books,".
- 2011276052 subject "CT9981.W5 S9 2011".
- 2011276052 subject "Dix, Morgan, 1827-1908.".
- 2011276052 subject "Practical jokes.".
- 2011276052 subject "Williamson, Eugene Fairfax.".
- 2011276052 title "The rector and the rogue / by W.A. Swanberg ; edited and with an afterword by Paul Collins.".
- 2011276052 type "text".