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...Gibraltar; when he made Mr. Tinker cry out upon the sewers of Algiers and say: "Why, the United States Army ought to come over here and clean it up!" Mr. Tinker boasted how much finer his home town was than oldtime Timgad. Mr. Tinker rode through Africa on a camel, like a barbaric Roman potentate, "raining money like some great careless thundercloud charged with silver and gold and pouring them down...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. ("Camel, the cigarette that leads by billions")- $29,080,664. Previous year...
Health officials in New York have now declared that the subway is immoral. To the dwellers in the wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems...
...meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage: 'Woe unto ye, scribes and Pharisees...
...depends on the multitudes who read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many industries in his hand when he decided on his new car; and Mr. Hearst is able to disturb the balance of nations. No doubt it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for these men to enter into Heaven. But in life, with kings powerless and presidents so restricted, it might be desirable that the monarchy of the rich be not absolute...