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...small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine my amazement and disgust to find that she had been allowed $2 for each pound sent. After a deduction of 25? collection charges by our local bank, Mrs. Ennor received...
...Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch and Pioneer Press, he began writing politics, fathered three children, was an active Newspaper Guildsman (but dropped out in disgust two years ago), became Governor Stassen's confidential political adviser and close friend during the campaign...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
Once when Sullens tied into Paul Johnson, then a judge, Johnson sued him for libel, and to Sullens' disgust a News official settled out of court for a reputed $18,000. On the day of the settlement judge Johnson bought a big new limousine and cruised up & down Jackson's Capitol Street, derisively honking as he passed the Daily News building. Said the Governor on the stump last summer: "I'm still spending that buzzard's money. I'm liable to be spending some more of it too when this campaign is over...
...real basis for disgust with Tchaikowski among many music lovers has little to do with the music itself, but a great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor...