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...inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean...
...little dancing bubbles wherewith the Liquid Carbonic Co. tickles the palates of a vast public of U. S. soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband...
...department of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State College, which had sent Mr. Hug forth-co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...
...become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...
...lavish in his attention to dress, complexion, repartee, new dance steps, light refreshment. The name which newspaper readers have sickened of seeing for several years, without fully understanding it, is thought to have originated in Washington or farther south, deriving from the species' propensity for tea, cakes and soda-fountain goodies...