Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a prostitute): "When I left, I gave her a few gold pieces. . . . She inquired very kindly: 'Is this all?' meaning obviously did I ask nothing more. 'Yes,' I replied. 'Why,' she said, 'then you are not a man; you are an angel.' 'No,' I objected, 'I am a man all right...
...McAllister Ingersoll, who promoted and managed the paper from the beginning, had provided it with a group of stockholders with exceedingly viable bank accounts. Nor were these losses a great tragedy to the stockholders, for most of them were people who could afford to own yachts, who regarded playing angel to a newspaper as one of the better ways of living up to their social responsibilities...
They did not find any that were satisfactory. So last week Marshall Field's plan to become PM's sole and all-controlling angel was submitted to the stockholders. It provided that: 1) he will form a new company to take over all PM's assets and obligations; 2) he will put up $300,000 to pay back the original stockholders 20? on the dollar; 3) in addition he will provide, for distribution to the old stockholders, a special Class B common stock entitled to a 15% equity in the new company; 4) he will lend...
Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...
...last page of his last novel - You Can't Go Home Again - "something has spoken in the night, and told me that I shall die, I know not where." Wolfe died in Baltimore in 1938. He was 37. He had published two long novels, Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935). Then as if in premonition of his death, Wolfe began to write so furiously that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest one-volume novels (some...