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...angry young men managed to get control of the Twin Lakes five-member school board. Pledged to purge the bloodless readers, to replace word recognition with phonetics, Dennis Beula, 33, an accountant, became chairman. Joining him on the board were John J. Collins, 32, a steel salesman; William B. Smeeth. 41, a vice president of a metal-finishing company; and John E. Pfeiffer, 33, president of a business supply company. And when school opened this year, they produced their version of the ideal storybook for the modern U.S. child: McGuffey's Eclectic Readers with all their full 1879 flavor...
...sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian Matfield, condescending stenographer, or Turgis, scrawny young clerk, could any of them fatten they would...
...foreign stock raised prohibitively. At this juncture Golspie, with the resuscitated Lena, embarks for South America, while Miss Matfield, who had finally consented to a weekend trip with her tycoon, forlornly looks for him at Victoria station, waiting to be seduced. The book closes with glimpses of the Smeeth and Dersingham families, sitting about the collapsed business and hoping for a fall of manna, while Golspie floats vociferously down the Thames...
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