Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Meeks-a man of 45, looking much older, with vague eyes half-closed in a sunburned, drooping face- rose from his chair and walked uncertainly out of a courthouse in Indiana. He did not know quite where to go, but anyway he could not go back now-not to Logansport. Alice Meeks, his wedded wife, had just divorced him. She complained that she found him a burden to her; she had kept him for a long time. Now he could go. She needed a man to work her farm. . . . The judge agreed with...
...Samuel Meeks stood in the sun-light in front of the courthouse steps. Alice was right-he married her to be kept, but. . . you got to like a person. Buckwheat cakes, with the brown bacon beside them; nights when the windows rattled so you could not sleep, thinking how good it was to be warm. Sadness flooded him. He felt an immense, searching pity for himself, homeless, a wanderer...
...Samuel Insull came of a poor family. His father ran a temperance hotel near Reading, Eng. Temperance was not popular. Samuel Insull had worked hard all his life, but he had never in his life worked so hard as he now began to work for Thomas Edison. When he landed in Manhattan, he hurried to the home of his new employer. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. "Report for duty after dinner," Mr. .Edison said. Samuel Insull worked until five next morning...
...Libertyville, 111. When the Chicago Opera Company, which long had rested on the weary shoulders of Mr. Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the now Mrs. Rockefeller-McCormick, came to Mr. Insull for salvation, the yearly deficit was a million dollars. Now it is $350,000. Directors predict that Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak of him as "Papa Insull" and give him their money to invest. They repeat with...
Engaged. Virginia Insull, daughter of Martin J. Insull, niece of Samuel Insull, electricity-gas-transportation magnates; to Major William A. Rafferty, U. S. A. (retired...