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...players at the head table last year had calcium lights over them, broadcasting apparatus before them, and adulation all around them. They were presented with gold watches and other "expressions of esteem." Among those seated at the guest table was Mr. C. C. Pyle--now commonly designated in the news columns as "Cold Cash" Pyle whom the redoubtable "Red," Grange insisted on having at his side. As a matter of fact, various sport promoters helped to promote this $10-a-plate banquet by taking tickets therefor...
Memorials built by public subscription are too often futile. In this case, fortunately, the contrary is true. Joseph Conrad had two main occupations in life: he sailed the seas and he wrote books. If he is to be honored with a concrete evidence of popular esteem it should be, certainly, something which will benefit sailors. No one claims that the sailor on shore leave is going to spend all of his time brousing in the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library. Nevertheless the institution will open up vast worlds to those of their number who have never read any of Conrad. Simply...
...trundled in on their Ticonderoga wagons. New country, new customers brought Field, Leiter & Co. new business. The Eastern states were changing into manufactories. Foresight and acumen were needed in all business and, as far as the dry goods business was concerned, John Shedd, who had risen high in the esteem of Field, had these qualities more highly developed than any of his competitors...
...fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer, who had lately been offered charge of a new government laboratory in Russia and whose suicide was to be a shock and a mystery to the many scientists that had long held him in high esteem, investigated at once...
Plain Sam Raingo, multimillionaire, British, unimaginative, "wangles a seat in Lords" and a minister from the "P. M." (Prime Minister). His meteoric rise in popular esteem, fear of the P. M.'s jealousy, ultimate confusion of his adversaries, loss of his mistress, and death from pneumonia fill two weeks and 393 pages. The last third of the book describes his death from every angle...