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...Pacific Advertising Clubs' convention: "It is not good business?it is not good Americanism, it is merely madness to say that any set of our people cannot sit down around a table without violence or bloodshed. Strikes are a necessary evil, but, like wars, they never got anything for anybody???unless it was bloodshed and black eyes." Thankfully the General added: "Strikes are happily no longer NRA babies...
...love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody???anybody???can go Bah! Bah! into a microphone?so! Artists today. . . ." Though Son Felix, 18, and Daughter Lena, 19, possess good singing voices, he will not let them think of musical careers, will not allow a piano in his home...
...impossible to give away the plot, because there is nothing that could really be called a plot. But there are plenty of interesting adventures and extraordinary characters and one can recommend this story (which begins in an oculist's office with a pair of near-sighted eyes) to anybody???which means everybody?who has ever cherished a secret ambition to become a hobo...
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