Word: alger
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...perhaps the principal moral theme is the story of Miss Bacall. The Puritanical bent, the Horatio Alger ambition of these three women is given a philosophic basis in Miss Bacall's history. The denouement of her experience can only be classified as Calvinistic: despite all our efforts, we can only obtain Paradise through Grace...
...Alger Hiss is a third cousin...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...
...while Democrats were running strong for House seats in other sections of the U.S., a handful of embattled Republicans in the South held firm. Five G.O.P. Southern Congressmen retained their seats, notably among them Dallas' Bruce Alger, who held off the strong challenge of Democrat Barefoot Sanders...
...businesslike as any Alger hero, Gruber still thinks of himself as primarily a book writer, but cheerfully admits: "I never write a book nowadays until after I've sold the idea for the story to a producer. That's why I stick to westerns. They're easier to sell to the movies and television...