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...Bureau, it would seem, is intended to find work for students desiring it. It is not its province to determine whether the applicant is entitled to work: whether, by a better balanced budget, he might get along without working at all; whether he is solvent; whether he spends his money on charity, the movies, cigarettes, or liquor. Assuming that the Bureau is finding better and more employment for more men--a fact that in the cases of certain individuals has not seemed to be the case--the Bureau can further help those who apply to it and can make itself...
During this period the hotel roof was peopled with wide-eyed, neck-cramped gazers at 25c per head. Others, equally curious but less solvent, jammed streets, stopped traffic, broke down fences, trampled lawns. Concessionaires opened hotdog, coffee, soft drink and peanut dispensaries...
...again, he decided that it would be more profitable to appear on U. S. vaudeville stages. Then he went among the wildmen of Borneo, and later settled in Texas with his eyes on oil. He had a theory: "A consolidation of bankruptcy companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute...
...offers two reasons for a woman's being faithful to an errant spouse: her debt for board and lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious...
Through the chaos of relationships, strained and tortured, William moves prayerfully, tolerantly, so genially that his good Kate is estranged. He sustains his erring child by letter; providentially he injects the solvent of good nature into the too-feminine atmosphere of his spacious home. With his morning flower in its accustomed place, his quizzical brows alert, his disquieting remarks and bright-eyed scheming, his gait still reminiscent of the sailor's roll, he is the captain of his hearth, steady in domestic storm as in the days when (before magnatehood) he spoked the wheels of tall ships. The family...