Word: alger
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...Helen's Babies nothing remains save the dim figure of a kind uncle, and a phrase, "Wants shee wheels go wound." Hector My Dog, Bob Son of Battle, Stviss Family Robinson; even The Jungle Books, the Henty Books, Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, and Little Lord Fauntieroy's lace collar and filial perfection* where are they? Gone, all gone, yet once the child that knew them not was plainly a barbarian...
...Cleveland; April 22, Pittsburg; April 23, New York. Following the show in New York there will be dancing and a cabaret show which will include vaudeville acts by former Hasty Pudding stars, prominent among whom will be Howard Elliott Jr. '22, J. S. Moynahan '24, and J. N. Alger...
...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...