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Show The Leather Profiteer. At the Players' club in Grnmercy park they were swapping profiteer stories. sto-ries. Butler Glaenzer, a critic and collector, col-lector, said : , "I recently helped a leather profiteer prof-iteer call him Peter Sweeney Johnson John-son to choose a library for his new Fifth avenue house. "Among our lucky finds was a famous fa-mous old English dictionary. The book was in bad condition, so we sent It off to be rebound. "Well, when it came back, gorgeously gor-geously done In green morocco nnd gold, the leather profiteer flew into a rage. He pointed to the title 'Johnson's 'John-son's Dictionary,' on the back, and yelled : " 'Why didn't they use the full name Peter Sweeney Johnson's Dictionary?'" Diction-ary?'" New Xork Times. |