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...monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes recollected, the personality of Joseph Conrad is projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing up the Thames in a steam launch with cigars, champagne, plovers' eggs in aspic. Mortared with the egotism of Mr. Ford, who jauntily refers to himself as "the finest stylist...
...father was an unsuccessful grocer. This business he had acquired by the misadventure of matrimonial union with Annie Sowers, whose hair was red, even as had been his mother's. Their faith in each other suffered early dissolution due to an ill-considered assertion on his part to the effect that hot bricks do not burn bedclothes. Resultant smoldering sheets and mattress consumed with them the Cane's insecure romance...
...Significance. This volume is a study of the post-natal creation of a human personality. Old Mr. Cane looked like what he ostensibly was- a suburban grocer. Beneath the white apron and the shy, dull face, he had made of his intelligence a realm of power and beauty, impervious to human contempt. His neighbors could not touch the essential power that was in him and which he passed on to his daughter...
Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, the Democratic nominee, is a Chicago wholesale grocer (Sprague, Warner & Co.) full of good works like his father before him. His chances of defeating his Republican opponent for the Senate are considered good, although the state is considered sure for Calvin Coolidge...
Born in Troy, N. Y., March 27, 1840, George F. Baker got a job at $2 as grocer's boy, participated in 1863 in the formation of the first New York Bank under the National Bank Act, "plunged" successfully in U. S. war bonds, made the First National Bank the bank of banks-that is about all that is known of Mr. Baker† in the last century. Friends say he has the hardest shell and softest heart in America...