Word: algers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: LOWELL KIRKLAND Rockwell, l.e. r.e., Austin Buckley, l.t. r.t., Gilbert, Baum deBard, Rockwell, l.g. r.g., Trench Culver, c. c., Merry Ayer, r.g. l.g., Miller Todd, r.t. l.t., Jeffers Illoway, Pringle, r.e. l.e., Alger Patterson, q.b. q.b., Fitz, Macdonald Bates, Drimmer, l.h.b. l.h.b., Forbes, Murphy Shapire, Summers, r.h.b. r.h.b., Hexon O'Conor, Wood, f.b. f.b., Sweeney, Seder...
...samurai, was rooted in the feudal past. His family was poor but proud. At school he was an idle, mischief-making but lusty youth, excelling in oratory and fencing. Despite early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls at "The House of the Wind and the Moon," found pleasure in a "tropical romance" with a "faithful courtesan...
Rudolph J. Schaefer is president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. A rear-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, he named his 56-footer after his two daughters, Edmee and Lucy. Skipper Alger, a Detroit socialite, is the grandson namesake of McKinley's Secretary...
Publishers Covici. Friede admit that A Cool Million is a rich mixture of Voltaire's Candide, Horatio Alger's Sink or Swim, Adolf Hitler's My Battle. Those U. S. readers who recall Author West's little-noticed satire, Miss Lonelyhearts* will expect something pretty funny as the upshot of this medley and they will not be disappointed. A Cool Million, of the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is really a U. S.-imitation Candide. Though Author West's satire lacks the bite of Voltaire's, it is sharp enough to take the hide...
Lemuel Pitkin, whose story begins in typical Alger surroundings, with a widowed mother, a mortgaged New England house and a villainous lawyer, quickly passes on to breezier events. Encouraged by his friend, "Shagpoke" Whipple, a smalltown banker, to seek his fortune in the big city, Lemuel sets out for Manhattan, falls victim to a confidence man. and is jailed by mistake. Here his dismantling begins: all his teeth are pulled out by order of the kindly warden. Lemuel is surprised to meet his friend Shagpoke in prison. To Lem's commiseration the bankster replies: "I am an American businessman...