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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...
...frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...
...sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year...
This time Buick went to William Crapo Durant, then head of Durant-Dort Carriage Co. Now he had found someone who thought of financing in terms of good round figures. Under Durant direction, Buick stock salesmen went from door to door, sold stock to farmers, schoolteachers, clerks, widows, to any who would buy. And for once, at least, hardly any promise could have been made too glowing for the future performance, hardly any prospectus could have been phrased in too superlative terms. Able, persuasive, Durant raised for Buick more than $1,000,000. Now (1906) there was a good time...
...having a wonderful time doing just what I am; in fact, I always have a good time wherever I go or whatever I'm doing. People are so nice everywhere, yes, even in Boston, and I haven't found them a bit high-hat either...