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When the train was ready, the parents boarded it, the mother said "Goodby, Charles" to the boy. In a moment the express was roaring over the countryside bearing the King and Queen of the Belgians to Paris, to Marseilles, to India, on a three-months journey...
...readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great War who Married a Shamed Girl to give her Baby a Name, effacing himself very Nobly from her Tragic plight and keeping Bees until he Won Her Love. There are also Boy Scouts in the story...
...letter from one W. A. Aiken, self-styled "92-year old Green Mountain boy," revived the Coolidge"third term" perennial. Mr. Aiken wrote that he had cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and that he hoped to cast what will probably be his last for Calvin Coolidge, in 1928. The fact that the President thanked Mr. Aiken, and that the Aiken letter was allowed to see the light at all "is "is regarded as significant...
...their knowledge, in voices thickened by many draughts of Seltzer-water and orange juice, they spoke. "That's all right," they said, "but let me tell you something-listen, there's just one man is going to win the Western. Let me tell you something, the boy that is going to win the Western is. . . . . " They then appended the name of one of the following professionals: James Barnes, Willie Macfarlane, M. J. P. Brady or Macdonald Smith, their choice depending on the location of their club-whether in Florida, New Jersey or New York...
That father was a young man who began earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank owned by his uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller...