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Realtor Ailing replied: "I cannot understand why some of my neighbors object to more millionaires per acre. None of my houses will have less than four bathrooms. . . . Hugh Garden rents from me now and so do Thomas W. Cloney, vice president of the Quaker Oats Company, John H. Hamline and William A. Jaicks. Joseph T. Bowen lived in my house for nine years and then bought...
...named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand how the Standard Oil Co. was formed with a capital of $1,000,000 in 1870 when Mr. Rockefeller was barely...
...Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together at 5 a. m. At 10:30 a. m. Peggy Joyce, preparing to leave Paris, spoke to reporters in an English accent. "Erskine really did not mean it," she giggled, "and I understand how it all happened...
...that him would be a totally tasteless bread pudding of the theatre, containing not even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously...
...Long before 10 o'clock, when the doors were opened, there were lines waiting to get in. The giant Sikorsky, moored off the Detroit Yacht Club because it was too big to get into Convention Hall, was constantly surrounded. Most amazing of all, men and women seemed to understand and a few got out their checkbooks...