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Hard-boiled Wall Streeters chomped their cigars and said, "Humph! Tryin' to gild his corporation." Friends of Baker Ward hotly denied. They reported a conversation. Baker Ward had been told he would get no backing from Wall Street for a corporation that might not pay common-stock dividends. "I need no Wall Street backing." Friends had deprecated the philanthropic clauses. "You men don't seem to understand that I have so much money I don't want any more. I want to give it away and do it in such a fashion that...
...steps of Billy, the postman, receded from the door, the worthy senior rose, picked up the bill, returned to his seat, relighted his pipe, opened the envelope, and then soliloquized as follows, while he read down the list of items: "Humph, here we have 'em again. Another Xmas card from the Bursar, Well, let's see how the score stands on this round. Well, first thing instruction, $50; now that's good. I've been to about 'steed recitations this year, and at half of them I've flunked, while at the other half I've spent my hour...
...girls, though, except Jenny, she's so mean. She'll know more when she grows up. Fred, he goes to Harvard. I wouldn't. I'm going to Yale. You can have more fun, and Yale licks, too. Professor Ladd says Yale's old-fogy and one-horse. Humph! How about foot-ball, I'd like to know? Well, I can't think of anything more to write about goodies...
...Humph! very likely," madam said...
...Humph!" ejaculated young Brown. "I always thought he was something between a snob and a fool...