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...richest man in the United States. He is a power in the oil business, the steel car business and the aluminum business. Yet, as E. G. Lowry (Editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger) once said: "He looks like a tired double-entry bookkeeper who is afraid of losing his job...
...Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works and tearfully plead for counsel. Your father will advise going to live alone in the bungalow where once you were poor but happy together. Then father will see to it that your husband loses his job and the vampire presents him with the atmosphere. After a few hard weeks he will acknowledge himself beaten and come back for forgiveness to you and little Melville, the innocent kiddie. If you do not hit him over the head with an axe you are all kinds of an idiot...
...that no one regard it as a performance. So great a crowd did he draw that he packed his church twice over. In this connection, it may be pointed out that the modern theatre arose out of the biblical plays of the Middle Ages, and that the book of Job is itself a religious drama, and was acted as such last fall in the 48th St. Theatre, Manhattan, by Mr. Stuart Walker. Rev. Mr. Thorn appears next as St. Paul...
...partial robots. It is merely a question of how many hours a day we should be robots. I want to be a robot for two hours a day so that the remainder of the day I can be G. B. S. Give me the most mechanical job you can find. Send me into those soul killing occupations which are always denouncing, so that I do not exhaust my intellect...
...worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart. He is a friend of mine, and I am not ashamed to write about it. Quite well, I remember a breakfast at the Yale Club when Don, having given up his job of selling bonds, told me that he was about to earn his living...