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THIS is the rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
Cached bottles of nocturnal sunshine bearing flashy labels and burnt corks were unearthed recently at the sumptuous clubhouse of many national fraternities in New York Consternation reigned when snooping agents who had walked in a side entrance tried to act collegiate, and quietly patted hip pockets of the Greeks as they dined...
...sent partly to Pittsburg and partly to France, under a contract with the French that calls for a million tons of metal. In demolishing the massive power plant machines, weighing 500 tons each, the cylinders are removed first, being toppled over by the crane after the bolts have been burnt away. Once during the operation, a piece weighing 22 tons had been raised 25 feet above title floor by the crane, when the cables supporting it broke, and the metal went hurtling to the ground. Striking the concrete flooring, heavily reenforced to bear the heavy engines the 22 ton mass...
...stand convicted," said Judge Avory, in a voice dry as burnt toast, "of one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. I do not think there is much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...
Doctors came running from consulting rooms, halted in horror. The 40 children, writhing in agony, their eyes burnt black, were blinded for life. The ignorant orderlies had filled the eye-sprays not with boric acid solution, but with a concentrated solution of silver nitrate kept for the treatment of infectious eye diseases...