Word: drews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiled wryly--I have never known aim to smile any other way--and tapped a fresh cigarette on his thumbnail. He drew deeply, held his breath, and looked 3' the carpet through narrowed eyes...
...August every member of his party fell ill with scurvy. But he was not through looking. He sent his companions home and remained alone, all eyes. When as fall drew on he did not return, the Russian Academy of Science organized the relief expedition which now is bringing him back to civilization...
Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...