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...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was???250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...
...preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was???a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence but Henry Hardtner, Alexandria lumber and oil man. publicly declared: "I'll never invest another...
...was???and his voice shook with pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That...
...keynote of the A. N. P. A. business sessions was???like all current U. S. keynotes?expansion of facilities, extension of functions. To expand, to extend, to go on making money, the publishers felt that they must get certain matters adjusted. They protested loudly, as usual, that postal rates were extortionate. They hinted that advertising rates were too low. They declared that the public must be aroused to the pulpwood shortage with which they, the publishers, might soon be faced...
...more than a flicker of its hidden fire, had burned home its deep impression. When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered. Her acknowledgment was???a quiet curtsy. More cheers. She sang an encore. The final "Brava!" The audience went home to talk it over, a new fad that promises to last weeks after Meller's departure...