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...prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged...
...year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp. increase its net income from $291,000 to $404,000. The Fuller Brush Man was apparently turned away from many a doorstep in 1936, for Fuller Brush Co. reported a dip in profits from $261,000 to $169,000. Radio Corp. reported earnings of about $6,100,000, up $1,000,000 from...
...with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks hot tea, likes to accompany it with thick sandwiches of corned beef...
Without holding a brief for or against the Brothers Goldblatt as a native Chicagoan, I cannot help but resent the implication that a name like Goldblatt will per se besmirch the beauty of State St., and dip its standards into the mud. I would like to point out to you gentlemen of limitless knowledge and particularly to your erudite Chicago editorial staff that such distinguished Anglo-Saxon and Norman names as Marshall Field and Carson, Pine Scott & Co.. rather than symbolizing State St., Chicago, have long stood and do stand forlornly alone amid the non-Aryan hosts...
...were scared by its speed. They took good profits, then wryly watched their favorite issues double, treble, sometimes quadruple in value after they had disposed of them. Some stocks stood still, some are now far below their recent highs and a few actually declined. But, after each little dip in the market, prices in general have gone...