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Familiar to song and story down the ages is the wastrel scion of a fortune-making family. Minot Jelke does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
...those tender days, Pat recalled, Mickey took her to dinner at his mother's, gave her a ring and told her to stick around until May, when his brother would inherit some money, and he could borrow $20,000. "Then," Pat testified, "he said we could be married, and his wife would not have to live in an unbecoming style." But Pat wanted to get married right away, and suggested that they both get jobs and live "even in a cold-water flat." Mickey was horrified. "I couldn't allow my wife to live that way," he said...
...however, cheerful, big-boned William I. Roberts- last of the family to inherit the place - decided to quit the soil. He became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...
Sales Talk. In Sacramento, boasting that he was due to inherit $5,000,000, House-to-House Salesman Lee Capell promised prospective customers a year's free milk and free home sites, confessed, after sheriff's deputies caught up with him for driving a car without a license: "You get to lying, get carried away and start believing...
...what he should be, and Eggerson wants nothing, wished for three things, and in fact gets them all. Simpkins, in the end, will become the organist in Eggerson's small town chapel, live with the Eggerson's and study for orders. He who seeks nothing, but has faith, will inherit the earth...