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When she reached home she unfolded the wad, read it. Following her husband's instructions she proceeded to effect his escape from prison last week...
...abetted the winning Smith campaign to the tune of $500,000. The Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made only two statements for newspaper publication...
During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...
...roistering infuscate U. S. sailor seated himself with a crash upon one of the shaky iron tables in front of Florian's, most famous of the cafes facing the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Pulling out a wad of 100-lira notes, he tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...
...these short stories, The Rich Boy, enters the Yale club of Manhattan and defines, with grave prescience, the tragedy of a man whose life began where many a life finishes, on a spiritually desert island. It compresses to 53 pages a wad of truth large enough for a thumping big novel...