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...pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater. A scream drowned in the water which had given him livelihood...
...beginnings of the Orangeman's rise to fame as a Harvard character came one hot June afternoon after he had arrived in this country from Ireland. John, who at that time was earning his livelihood as an odd job man, was watching some of the students playing baseball on the Common. One of them asked him to bring them some water, and John fetched a pail of refreshment so pleasantly cooled with ice flavored with ginger ale and molasses, that the students took up a collection for him told him that if he were to buy fruit and bring...
...Thomas Franklin Millard, long resident in China as the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...earnings of great corporations in transportation, communication, power & light, cinema, or automotive, iron and steel industries are important for two main reasons: 1) They are barometers of the rise and fall of prosperity; 2) the multitude of the stock and bond holders depends on their earnings for livelihood and luxury. But there exists a vastly greater number of concerns, more or less obscure, more or less subsidiary, whose earnings constitute a greater part of U. S. income. A few such concerns, and their 1926 earnings as reported recently...
...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...