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...When the Arabian Nights year of 1929 was making millionaires out of boot-blacks, I had lost my reputation, my wife, my child, my home and my fortune and was skating on the thin edge of personal bankruptcy. All I had left was my mother." In a book called The Voice of Young America, he attacked U. S. business methods, advocated a better distribution of wealth. "It's the same old story. ... I myself had lain with trouble. That is why I changed...
Huey Long never at any time ordered the deduction of so much as a thin dime from the pay envelope of an officeholder compelled to do Long's bidding or lose his job, to be turned over to the New Orleans States...
Writing informal history as much as fiction, Author Bromfield does not try to make what he has to say seem like a story. The book is a collection of notes about the people whose lives touch Hallie Chambers, the Colonel's simple guide, "had a thin tough horse and wore buckskin pants . . . and a beaver cap. . . . The Colonel thought that at last he had discovered Jean Jacques' 'natural man'. . . ." Weiler, the innkeeper, told the Colonel and his Jesuit friend, Father Duchesne, about "the young man called Lazare who lived with the Indians but was white...
...said to himself: "Well, after all, I make a better impression than any of these men. I'm a Harvard graduate, and I am prepossessing. I'll just have to do it," he said, feeling the four thin dimes in his pocket. He saw a sign in the car "Diamond rings, $39.50," which reminded him that there was no coal left in the cellar. His father had said: "There's nothing like being married and owning your own home...
There are approximately 30,000,000,000 stars in this home circle, arranged in what Dr. Shapley called a discoidal system, the general shape of this star mass being that of a thin watch, or of two plates held together face to face. Studies of the last year indicate that the diameter of our galaxy is 200,000 light years, a light years, a light year being 6,000,000,000,000 miles...