Word: getterism
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...oats, he knew the big-town song-and-dance, the Broadway poker-game; but love was a word he believed in. He put a wallop in that word, but was leery of saying so in gabfests, because most "gogetters" thought it was hokum, and he was a go-getter. "Big money" was what he wanted. He got a job promoting Sawkin's Hair Salvation, gave it up, started a hash-house. Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down, always he was lonely, always there were the women. Mr. Black must have known a lot of Stacys; he makes...
...soldier in the Spanish War, engaged in the lumber business and failed at it, tried to start a newspaper and failed at it, then turned to writing and has been more successful at it than most of his fellow "best-sellers." That fact that The Go-Getter* and its doctrine have made him a good-salesman trade-mark irks him occasionally, for he says that he is forever talking to Rotary Clubs and young men's organizations on the gospel of success. Why not? He has the recipe...
...GETTER-Cosmopolitan Book Corp...
...asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol...
...York has a Democratic Governor, by name Alfred E. Smith. He is a man of immense popularity in his own state. He is what politicians know as a "vote-getter." Naturally John W. Davis and the Democratic National Organization wanted Smith to run for reelection because it would strengthen their rather dubious chances of carrying New York with its 45 votes in the Electoral College. Naturally, Tammany, the local Democratic organization, wanted Smith to run, to strengthen their local ticket which they feared might go down in a national Republican landslide. But Smith did not want to run. That...