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...once the skill he had been acquiring by years of hack work was set free. Still a back-country village, Pittsburgh was just the place for a man with an embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court...
...greatest place in the world. Back in Manhattan, Lincoln Steffens got him a job on the American Magazine. Soon it began to look like Harvard all over again. He was taken into the Dutch Treat Club, was spoken of as a coming man by many a highly-paid hack. He was taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike...
WAKE UP AND LIVE !-Dorothea Brande -Simon & Schuster ($1.75). How the author transformed herself in two years from a hack into a bestseller, with the twelve rules that guided her and can help YOU to do likewise. Not as bad as it sounds...
...meant to do, and, it must be said, has done for the upper three classes. For the first year man, just released from the regimentation of prep school life, some sort of nature leadership is definitely needed, and it was hoped that the Advisers would be able to hack the trail through the wilderness of the early months in college. More important and concrete than this friendly guidance, the duty of the Adviser was to aid in the choice of courses during the first year, and finally to help the Freshmen select his field of concentration. The new freedom...
...eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...