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...General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs to him. Wrote the Time's writer slyly: "Shares of the Durant Motor Co. on the Curb Market were a little stronger yesterday in an irregular market. . . . The market for the shares was supported actively by Mr. Durant...
There, he spoke more in humor than in rage. He might have led a liberal party into power. But, upon him as upon his fellow regular irregular, Senator William E. Borah, "party ties lie lightly." Mr. Borah, ablest orator in the Senate,* Mr. Norris, dean of progressives, remained imposing might-have-beens...
...roads were in good condition, to get to Boston. In the Spring, when the roads were thick and deep with mud, it was a common experience for the passengers to climb out of their coach and lift the wheels out of the mire. The service was more or less irregular, and persons waiting for the omnibus at the Cambridge end, were able to pass the time pleasantly in the tavern until the time of their departure...
...research work in American institutions of higher learning generally regarded as an avocation carried on at irregular intervals snatched from class and lecture work? This question is brought home in striking manner each year when the awards from the Milton Fund are made public...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...