Word: alger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work of Whitman...
With $40, he came to New York in 1882. He came also with a suitcase full of writings, including some by Horatio Alger, and an idea for a juvenile magazine. He came with a promise from a banker in Maine?the 28 years since his birth had passed in that State?that he could have $2,500 on call for the publication of his juvenile. A Maine boy who had preceded Munsey to Manhattan had promised another $1,000. The promised capital was called for, but was deaf. Dismayed, Munsey took his idea to a publisher and with unexpected suddenness...
...daily newspapers forthwith issued the copy which they also had prepared well in advance, blaring the Horatio-Alger-like career of Chairman Jones. "From rags to riches," said the New York World. Two of the gum-chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when...
...industry. W. W. Atterbury, however, is no captain, but a general, that title having been formally conferred upon him on the occasion of services which he rendered as chief railroad man for the Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish hat, offsets a flashy taste in ties with a grizzled military mustache...
...book of the play, advertised as a "nonsensical musical farce in two acts," is the work of J. C. Murphy '25 and W. S. Martin '26, Lyrics are by Joseph Alger '22, E. F. Craig '25, G. P. Ludlam '25, and J. C. Murphy '25. The music has been prepared by L. S. Abbot '24, Joseph Alger '22, E. F. Craig '25, Thayer Cumings '26, M. H. Harris '24, Theodore Pearson '25, and Frank Taussig...