Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring your papers into court in an expensive brief case; bring them in an ordinary paper wrapping. . . . Try to get a seat at a table near the jury and let the jury see what you are doing. . . . Lean on the table and look the jury in the eye. . . . Use the same language that the juryman would use in telling your story to his wife and children...
WAYS OF ESCAPE-Noel Forrest -Little, Brown ($2). All blessings fell to Stephen Heath, arrogant brave, self-sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting...
...tranquil afternoon, John Hay would look out of his windows on La Fayette Square, watch an "old corps commander or admiral of the Civil War, tottering along to the club for his cards or cocktail." Over there was where Mrs. Dolly Madison used to live after her husband died, there was the house of Daniel Webster, of William H. Seward, of Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1905 John Hay died; so did the one great salon of the New World...
With proper pride the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. was celebrating its 75th anniversary with a boast: "There are ten presidents of U. S. railroads who can look back at their training days with the Burlington." The advertisements might well have told off their names...
...motor car makers, remarked: "The barbers in Detroit hotels and the smoking room oracles are feeling sorry for Henry Ford. They think he is up against it. Strange how the crowd likes to hear that the rich man has to wiggle. Well, they said that about John Willys. Now look at the Whippet go. They thought Chrysler was a boob because he had no wheelbase two years ago. Who cares now? Of course, the business is just beginning. Five years from now would be a good time to start. There will be twice as many buyers then." Quipster Jordan feels...