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...President and the Colonel are not so far apart as these circumstances would indicate. The pomp of office and the prestige of daring are alike playthings of the press and the public. There is an incessant pulse in the nation: and ebb follows flow and flow succeeds ebb with deadly certainty...
...Hovey, apparently, proves the rule by his exception to it. A man of property, in a hurried moment, he may have swallowed the bait of "red" alarmists, those people who see in the lectures of a courageous leader of thought or in the ebb of the New York market the fires of a great and devasting uprising, lead by the "reds". Who the "reds" are has yet to be decided. Perhaps Mr. Hovey will find that when he discovers why "socialists" are per se wicked...
Fourth, pretty much the whole of English history is also covered by courses devoted to certain periods. There is a rhythm, an ebb and flow, a rise and fall of certain elementary
...Christmas and all through Detroit a great many creatures were stirring. That familiar figure, the man in the street, would have said that Detroit was "dead," "flat" or at least very quiet. But that would be because the Ford factories were shut down and production was at a low ebb in many another plant. Actually there was intense invisible activity-as in a huge household of which the important members had all shut themselves in their rooms to wrap up Christmas presents, cautiously guarding their keyholes against prying children (newspaper reporters) and fretting in secret over finishing touches to their...
Lake Michigan never had tides but Chicago had the ebb and flow of fire to fortune, prosperity to panic, good blood to bad, old homes to ugly apartments, "joints" to skyscrapers. And human careers either breasted these tides or were swept by them to good or ill. There is nothing superlatively able about the story's hero, Alan Wheelock, but he is swept to wealth, and away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine...