Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bill cared little for school or books, quit New York University after his third year because "I got itchy. I wanted to make a lot of money. I wanted a big car and a lot of clothes." In those years his favorite phrase was: "The masses are asses." After Bill had tried his hand at several jobs, he and his father decided to build a house on a piece of Long Island property which they hadn't been able to sell. Alfred quit New York University-after telling the dean that the place couldn't teach him anything...
...much the Levitts make on each house is a closely guarded secret. Most guesses put the net at more than $1,000 a house, or better than $5,500,000 on this year's Levittown houses. Says Bill: "I don't like to be associated with anything that doesn't make money...
...because of that year's one-shot "New Look," Puckett added that what was needed was a New Look every year. "Money that was not spent for soft lines . . . was not spent on other lines of merchandise, but was saved by the consumer. It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have . . . You might call us 'merchants of unhappiness' . . ." Concluded Puckett: "We must make these women so unhappy that their husbands can find no happiness or peace in their excessive savings...
Rapture in a Frock Coat. When Rilke was eleven, his father suddenly yanked him away from his dolls and shoved him into a military academy to make a man of him. Such a sudden change in weather might have cracked tougher spirits, and young Rilke barely kept from going to pieces. At 16, he finally persuaded his family to let him study the classics and go on to the university. Soon he was a well-known figure in the streets of Prague, a wraith-pale young man in a black frock coat and broad-brimmed hat, drifting vaguely along...
...make the mistake of drawing too sharp...