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Captain Stayton paraphrased an imaginary income-taxpayer's reasoning: "'I want to get rid of these taxes. If the average man wants to drink beer and pay taxes on it, why, hell...
...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair was often a caller and overnight guest at the White House before the Teapot Dome oil lease was consummated. President Harding said: "Well, I guess there will be hell to pay but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
...took a cigaret, lit it, and went over and stood beside him. He said: 'This is a hell of a Christmas.' I asked him what was the matter and he replied: 'Everything is the matter.' I gathered from his mutterings that things were not all right with him in his domestic life. In this same conversation the President told me that there were things going on in the public business that he didn't approve but that he was helpless to stop them...
...Later that day I met old Sawyer, who was there every morning to feel the President's pulse and advise a new brand of pills. Sawyer laughed and said: 'God, they had a hell of a row this morning.' He meant the President and his wife...
...comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling with undertones of violence and defiance. Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Mme. Moustache, Poker Alice, Kitty the Schemer, and other lady wildcats of this astounding period in American history are highly spiced side dishes to the Calamity...