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...hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
...many opportunities: "writing" for newspaper syndicates, endorsing cosmetics, giving concerts. In London she would come to dinner for a flat sum. When her father's business failed it did not matter; Florence was now the family moneymaker. But she found the business of being a champion took more than brawn, more than brains; in self defense she had become a cold-eyed, hard-shelled racketeer. When the man she loved but thought she could not afford to marry finally saw what she had become, Florence realized at last she was hopelessly in love with him. Too late, she was wedded...
What could be more appropriate? The Nationalists are in effect the Irish of India ?except that they lack Irish brawn and Irish humor. They quarrel among themselves like Irishmen...
...division is at school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...
...ways of trappers. Mme. Courtois did not expect her husband and sons back from their business until the Spring. But June came, the fishing season started, and still they did not return. Neighboring trappers and lumbermen talked of organizing search parties. But, remembering shock-headed Dave Courtois' experience, his brawn, his ability to quaff tin dippers of "trade whiskey" from a barrel, they waited...