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Another item is a first edition of his first work, "The Torrent and the Night Before," issued in 1896, and containing the following dedication: "This book is dedicated to any man, woman, or critic who will cut the pages of it-- I have done...
Before Depression the volume of new capital that poured into industry was a torrent. Then it dwindled to a trickle. The figures on the prolonged drought in new financing...
...trickle has not yet returned to a torrent is explained in part by the kind of backwater which last week became apparent in Wall Street...
...Dudley hooked consistently, fell back with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth, controlled their pitching and putting, carding respectively 71 and 70. By mid-day Reginald Whitcombe, at home in the torrent, thought his two-stroke lead safe. No longer threatened by the U. S. pack, he only feared his brother and Henry Cotton as he drove off for the final 18 holes...
Eventually the torrent of mingled loyalty and curiosity which is this year again carrying hundreds of travellers from all over the world to London carried Fanny and her father to the great gas-lit metropolis. Here she was allowed, at times almost forced, by her indulgent father to see all the sights and miss nothing for which London or its environs was famous, while he condescended to spend a goodly portion of his time at an establishment known simply as "White's" from which he returned each evening in great spirits...