Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea as to what writings are best in the fields of music, or astronomy, or art. With such a bibliography printed in a convenient pamphlet form that huge bulk Widener would at once become what it now is only to the exceptional--a treasure trove of knowledge and a mine of stimulating ideas...
...years ago, when I was a young chap, a rather prominent elderly gentleman of my acquaintance said that the greatest man he ever met was Robert E. Lee. That struck me, you know, for I had never heard of him before, and yet I knew that friend of mine had met Bismarck, Von Moltke, Gladstone and a dozen other great men. Robert E. Lee must have been a remarkable character to have impressed my friend so profoundly...
...narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother, in a jazz wedding ceremony...
...This faith of mine is no crossword puzzle. It is beyond words. For words at their best are but symbols of the truth...
Simon Patino started life 59 years ago. Aged 28 (when he was an insignificant storekeeper), he raised the enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...