Word: algerisms
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Despite his tender years, Dart is already an ex-Alger hero. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, handsome, he played football at Northwestern University, graduated in 1929, went to work as a stockroom clerk in a Walgreen store in Chicago, married Ruth Walgreen, the founder's daughter, and rose to be general manager of Walgreen Co. By last year he had been divorced from the founder's daughter and quit...
...Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...
This is the first novel since Chad Hanna by one of America's better historical novelists, Walter D. Edmonds. In it he puts that immortal American, the Horatio Alger hero, into period pants. The period: the 1830s, in Manhattan...
...worst Young Ames is exalted Alger. At its best it dramatizes with nostalgia and conviction an attitude toward life which used to be considered the heart of the democratic ideas. The attitude: that a man can make anything he wants of himself if he has the character to sacrifice present pleasures to future purposes; and if he does not have that character, nothing else he may have matters...
...anything I could think of. ... I scarcely even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs in the stockmarket." When he went into business for himself in 1930 he didn't have a dime. He rented a $45-a-month office...