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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 30 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 45875 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 85 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Mr. 10 Mrs. 9 Miss 8 New 8 Laura 7 Washington 7 Colonel 6 Senator 6 Philip 5 man 5 Hawkins 4 York 4 Ruth 4 John 4 Harry 3 look 3 good 3 come 3 London 3 God 3 George 3 Company 2 time 2 dollar 2 chapter 2 Tom 2 Street 2 Silas 2 Senate 2 Rogers 2 Robert 2 Railroad 2 Peter 2 Pennsylvania 2 Johnson 2 Jim 2 House 2 Hawkeye 2 Dilworthy 2 Congress 2 Bolton 2 Bill 2 Astor 1 year 1 want 1 think 1 seller 1 robot 1 report 1 panther Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4590 man 2972 time 2170 day 2009 thing 1931 way 1828 hand 1695 business 1645 money 1569 year 1410 eye 1376 dollar 1158 house 1151 life 1103 woman 1095 room 1042 face 994 one 979 nothing 978 father 961 people 937 head 891 door 872 girl 866 place 863 something 851 friend 812 word 811 night 810 world 807 wife 797 anything 768 work 765 stock 741 moment 736 office 708 mother 706 matter 681 fact 676 mind 671 morning 666 hour 622 boy 603 heart 602 railroad 601 interest 581 name 574 part 570 voice 567 child 566 side Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3777 Mr. 2016 _ 1393 Mrs. 1039 Lapham 1013 Bobby 862 Miss 822 Rawn 794 New 782 Wallingford 733 John 667 Johnny 630 George 613 York 567 Corey 531 Robinson 509 Colonel 481 Laura 462 Sally 457 Brown 452 Washington 441 Philip 424 Sam 422 Ezra 419 Company 400 Vanderbilt 357 Tom 345 Girdlestone 324 General 311 Halsey 302 Bernick 302 Ben 291 Johnson 289 Gresham 285 Irene 281 Jones 275 Street 272 Government 272 Congress 271 States 265 Harry 264 J. 254 Gamble 253 Senator 252 United 248 Ruth 240 Constance 238 Bill 233 Kate 222 Rogers 222 God Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 23329 i 20887 he 19133 it 16066 you 8262 she 6678 him 5495 they 4923 me 4249 we 3265 them 3134 her 1519 himself 1192 us 559 myself 455 herself 326 themselves 268 itself 263 yourself 191 ''em 190 one 129 mine 105 ''s 102 yours 88 thee 83 ourselves 55 his 37 hers 32 ours 29 theirs 21 em 9 i''m 7 yourselves 7 you''re 7 ye 6 you''ll 4 wa''nt 4 meself 3 she''ll 3 oneself 3 hisself 2 yo 2 thyself 2 thar 2 pelf 2 i''d 2 ha 2 --they 1 zat 1 yours,"--he 1 your Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 52689 be 21969 have 10544 do 7101 say 5094 go 3947 come 3873 know 3749 make 3551 see 3482 get 2854 take 2476 think 2401 look 2054 give 1856 tell 1817 want 1501 find 1351 ask 1198 turn 1179 seem 1156 stand 1151 let 1111 put 1087 leave 982 begin 968 keep 929 call 922 feel 890 pay 884 hear 820 bring 813 hold 789 sit 776 like 759 mean 758 pass 735 buy 724 show 712 work 712 speak 710 sell 707 try 697 become 687 talk 684 use 643 run 642 suppose 628 believe 568 wait 551 laugh Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 14158 not 3727 so 3583 up 2986 now 2938 out 2864 then 2448 very 2446 more 2332 good 2116 little 1925 only 1872 well 1783 down 1774 never 1768 other 1754 much 1749 as 1684 here 1679 just 1626 old 1620 great 1488 there 1483 back 1421 own 1419 first 1390 long 1357 young 1284 too 1247 again 1192 away 1166 all 1157 right 1072 still 1071 even 1057 always 1054 in 1030 ever 1013 on 967 most 963 last 926 many 902 over 890 enough 862 once 804 new 795 few 791 same 775 such 702 large 701 off Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 443 good 312 least 268 most 89 great 84 bad 45 slight 39 large 38 rich 34 high 33 fine 31 Most 30 late 28 near 26 low 23 big 19 dear 17 young 13 eld 12 strong 12 full 11 noble 10 old 10 happy 10 deep 9 sweet 9 small 9 early 7 wise 7 severe 7 long 7 hard 7 choice 6 shrewd 6 pure 6 light 6 bright 5 warm 5 smart 5 proud 5 poor 5 j 5 handsome 5 cheap 5 bitter 4 wild 4 wealthy 4 vile 4 safe 4 nice 4 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 699 most 61 least 46 well 2 worst 1 understand-- 1 s''all 1 rattiest 1 near 1 hard 1 finest 1 farthest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/5/3/27533/27533-h/27533-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/5/3/27533/27533-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/5/9/23595/23595-h/23595-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/5/9/23595/23595-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 _ is _ 10 _ was _ 10 lapham had not 9 _ did _ 8 _ are _ 8 _ do _ 8 lapham did not 7 bobby did not 6 _ do n''t 6 men do n''t 5 _ have _ 5 one does not 5 people do n''t 4 _ am _ 4 _ got _ 4 _ had _ 4 business is business 4 business was not 4 father was not 4 man do n''t 4 man does n''t 4 men do not 4 one has ever 4 things do n''t 4 time was ripe 3 _ did n''t 3 _ want _ 3 bobby had not 3 bobby looked up 3 bobby was not 3 bobby was surprised 3 bobby went out 3 business was simple 3 door was still 3 eyes are bad 3 eyes were open 3 eyes were red 3 face did not 3 face was very 3 lapham said nothing 3 lapham was not 3 life is too 3 man is not 3 men are here 3 money was not 3 thing is not 3 things go on 3 time was not 3 woman does n''t 2 _ does n''t Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 father was not so 2 lapham had no need 1 _ am not content 1 _ has no circulation 1 _ made no comment 1 bobby had no excuse 1 bobby had no qualms 1 bobby had not yet 1 bobby made no reply 1 bobby was not nearly 1 business was not enough 1 business was not so 1 day was not far 1 eyes gave no sign 1 eyes were not multi 1 face did not so 1 father had no right 1 father had not much 1 father had not very 1 father was not even 1 girl were not so 1 hand was not afraid 1 house was not large 1 lapham had no mercy 1 lapham had no time 1 lapham had not many 1 lapham had not quite 1 lapham had not yet 1 lapham made no answer 1 lapham made no difficulty 1 lapham was not again 1 lapham was not rather 1 life had not yet 1 life has no moment 1 life is no problem 1 life is not apt 1 man had no consciousness 1 man had not yet 1 man has no imagination 1 man has no politics 1 man is not more 1 man is not so 1 man was no longer 1 men are not willing 1 men had no money 1 money is no use 1 money is not worth 1 money was not forthcoming 1 money was not plentiful 1 money were not unknown A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 51726 author = Budrys, Algis title = Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night date = keywords = Burr; Ermine; IAB; Mr.; Sollenar summary = You can tell Mr. Ermine to come up." Sollenar went to sit behind and said: "I would like some light to see you by, Mr. Sollenar." "I only wanted to see you first," said Sollenar; "I thought Ermine said, paying no attention to Sollenar''s involuntary blink. "Quite intense," Sollenar said, looking directly ahead of him at the "I don''t understand, Mr. Ermine," Sollenar said. Ermine said: "Late this evening, my office learned that Cortwright Burr light reached his eyes; and Sollenar had been wrong, Burr had less left "As you wish." Ermine moved beside Sollenar to the bench, but remained "Mr. Sollenar," Ermine said gently. Across the lounge, Burr raised his head and looked into Sollenar''s "Tell me, Ermine," Sollenar said quietly as they walked across the "A matter of procedure, Mr. Sollenar," Ermine said evenly. "What did Burr give you?" Sollenar asked. Sollenar said: "I would like to look out your door." id = 60849 author = Castle, Arnold title = When Day is Done date = keywords = Bernard; panther summary = confident young men decided to stop for a quick one at the building''s Well, that was okay--Bernard had been a late-runner in So Bernard entered the rap-tran alone, though surrounded by scores of nodding toward the pistol at Bernard''s side. Glancing swiftly over the page, Bernard saw that fifty panthers had Drawing his pistol and placing it between his teeth, Bernard leaped to the ground between the wall and a large low palm. An hour later he arrived at the river, a half-mile above the rapids and Bernard picked off the panther as it readied itself for a second wall, which was less than half a mile away. Bernard helped her climb the wall, though she seemed quite adept at it How good a warm shower would be, thought Bernard, as he entered the the only reason he had started jungle running in the first place was to id = 19272 author = Chester, George Randolph title = The Early Bird: A Business Man''s Love Story date = keywords = Billy; Creek; Hastings; Hollis; Josephine; Meadow; Miss; Mr.; Princeman; Sam; Stevens; Turner; Westlake summary = "All right," said Sam, clasping his knee in his hands and rocking "Just the chap I wanted to see, Sam," said Mr. Westlake heartily. direct announcement," laughed Sam, and Princeman walked away with Mr. Westlake, very much to Billy''s consternation. stalked away leaving Billy gasping for breath at the suddenness of Sam. After all, though, he was glad to be rid of Mr. Turner. "Good morning, Miss Stevens," he said with a cheerful self-confidence Sam as airily as he could; then he looked across at Miss Stevens and MISS JOSEPHINE''S FATHER AGREES THAT SAM TURNER IS ALL BUSINESS "Well, Sam Turner," said Mr. Stevens, stroking his aggressive beard, "I Sam Turner was deeply thoughtful as he turned away from the telephone. screened by dwarf cedars, were Miss Westlake and Mr. Turner, and Sam glimmer of understanding came to Sam Turner that only Miss Stevens had "Well," said he, "Sam Turner is a fine young man. id = 26485 author = Chester, George Randolph title = The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man date = keywords = Agnes; Applerod; Bates; Biff; Bobby; Brightlight; Bulletin; Burnit; Caravaggio; Chalmers; Company; Consolidated; Dan; Electric; Elliston; Ferris; Johnson; Jolter; Mr.; Mrs.; Platt; Ripley; Robert; Sharpe; Silas; Stone; Trimmer; Uncle summary = "Looks like good finessing to me," said Bobby complacently. "New office fitted up yet, Johnson?" asked Bobby pleasantly. at the door of Bobby''s office and poked in his head to announce Mr. Silas Trimmer. "Applerod is quite right, Mr. Johnson," said Bobby severely. "Twenty-seven thousand six hundred dollars," said Bobby, figuring the AGNES DELIVERS BOBBY A NOTE FROM OLD JOHN BURNIT--IN A GRAY ENVELOPE gay as the time approached, and Bobby Burnit took Agnes out to view "If it''s Sam and Billy we''re not going to wait for them," said Mrs. Sharpe with a languishing glance at Bobby. "It''s all very well to show fight, Johnson," said Bobby, a little As Bobby took the letter from Johnson Agnes came into the office and "Haven''t time just now, Biff," said Bobby; "but jump into the machine "His own man," said Applerod sorrowfully when Bobby had left them. They were Bobby Burnit and Agnes, Johnson, Applerod and id = 37010 author = Chester, George Randolph title = Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer date = keywords = Battlesburg; Blackie; Clover; Company; David; Daw; Fox; Jasper; Jim; Klug; Lamb; Maylie; Mr.; Mrs.; Neil; Nickel; Rufus; Wallingford; chapter; come; dollar; honorable summary = "You''re not going home to dinner, are you, Mr. Lamb?" asked Mr. Wallingford suddenly. automobile firms and took spins in four machines, and at last Mr. Wallingford picked out a five-thousand-dollar car that about suited him. thousand dollars'' worth of stock as your share for the patent rights, when it came to paying the thousand dollars down, Mr. Wallingford Mr. Wallingford and Mr. Lamb sixty thousand dollars in stock, for all Rufus Wallingford, for in his possession he had ninety thousand dollars'' "When the right man came along he bought," said Wallingford, and extra treasury stock; and in that time Wallingford, by appointing a St. Louis agent, had managed to dispose of twenty thousand dollars'' worth of this Mr. Wallingford I told you about, he said right away he would come Mrs. Wallingford came to town the next day, and at no time did she share id = 4353 author = Chester, George Randolph title = Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress date = keywords = Collaton; Constance; Courtney; Ersten; Gamble; Gresham; Heinrich; Johnny; Joy; Loring; Miss; Mr.; Polly; Schnitt; Slosher; Washer summary = "When I get Johnny Gamble''s name this list is closed," said Polly Johnny Gamble hasn''t a cent left, has he, Loring?" Johnny Gamble and Constance Joy, for just a moment, looked upon each I''m not Johnny Gamble," laughed Gresham. good-by to Constance, Loring came up hastily and called Polly from the Polly followed Johnny Gamble when he started to rejoin the colonel. Five minutes after Johnny and Mr. Washer had gone, Constance Joy came Constance Joy and Johnny Gamble. Johnny, relying like a lost mariner on Polly Parsons and Constance Joy "His eyes are bad," went on Johnny, "but I think he would like to come Polly, fluffy little Winnie, Mrs. Follison and our own two girls; Mr. Loring, Val Russel, Bruce Townley, Sammy Chirp, Mr. Gamble and Mr. Gresham. "Johnny Gamble made a million dollars so he could ask you Constance much aggrieved--"Johnny Gamble''s million, and me, and id = 13152 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Firm of Girdlestone date = keywords = Baumser; Bedsworth; Black; Burt; CHAPTER; Clutterbuck; Dimsdale; Eagle; Ezra; Farintosh; Fenchurch; German; Gilray; Girdlestone; God; Harston; John; Jorrocks; Kate; London; Major; Miggs; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Priory; Rebecca; Street; Tom; Von; african; good; look; man; time summary = "Oh yes, there are," Ezra Girdlestone remarked, coming into the room. "You have come in good time to see something of University life," said "I''ve been wishing to speak with you for some days, major," said Ezra. "I''d ask you round to me own little place," the major said, "but it''s "I hardly know," said Tom; "I should like a little time to think it "A good day''s work, Tom," said the old doctor, as they left the lawyer''s "Now, look at that!" cried the little man, throwing out his hands. "I''m fair sick of it," said the little man, passing his grimy hand "Look at that," the old man said, when the click of the outer door "A nice-looking girl, too," said Ezra, in answer to some such remark. "Look here, major," the latter said, when they came into their room, "Good night, Mister Ezra," said the girl, with her hand upon the handle id = 30299 author = Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson title = The Romance of a Plain Man date = keywords = Atlantic; Aunt; Ben; Benjy; Bland; Bolingbroke; Bonny; Dr.; Euphronasia; General; George; God; Great; Jessy; Matoaca; Midland; Miss; Mitty; Mr.; Mrs.; President; Railroad; Sally; Samuel; South; Starr; Theophilus; look summary = "I followed the wrong turn," said the pale little woman, breathing hard "I ain''t goin'' that way," I said, "I''m goin'' home by the old Adams house "Sally," said the old lady, turning upon me a piercing glance which was "Some day you shall tell me the long story, Ben Starr," she said, as she "Surely Aunt Matoaca is right to express what she thinks," said Sally, "Well, we''ll ask Ben to dinner some day, and he may judge," said Sally. "I saw Sally Mickleborough to-day, Ben, when I called on Miss "I don''t like the way things are behaving in Wall Street, Ben," he said. looked at Sally with a long, thoughtful gaze as he held out his hand. said Sally, with the cheque in her hand; "George was very good to her at "I think we''re coming to it," said Sally suddenly, trying to turn the Oh, Ben, don''t you like it?" said Sally, springing id = 51362 author = Haggert, W. T. title = Lex date = keywords = Lexington; Manners; Peter; machine summary = Staring back at the last blank wall, Peter suddenly remembered the time "Thanks," Peter said, and a door at one side of the anteroom swung open "Some," said Peter, stung again, this time not by a compliment. "I worked my way through," said Peter stiffly. "Come on," said Lexington, getting massively to his feet. Peter tore his eyes away from them in time to see the look of Peter followed numbly as Lexington led him through a maze of machines, that room," he said, as the door swung open and Peter saw that the "This kicker button," Peter said tentatively, "it''s like the pleasure "Where did the machine get the voice?" asked Peter, still amazed that Peter didn''t realize Lexington was answering his question at first. Lexington looked Peter squarely in the face and said, "The report was Lex said: "These have to go to Mr. Lexington''s id = 63616 author = Haley, A. L. title = Hagerty''s Enzymes date = keywords = Breen; Harper; Scribney; robot summary = Harper Breen sank down gingerly into the new Relaxo-Lounge. "Hey, Harp, old man!" His brother-in-law, turning the pages of the "You''re right, Bella," agreed Harper incisively. he watched the robots moving efficiently about, pushing patients in desk clerk who, poor man, was a high strung fellow human instead of a I won''t have another of those damnable robots in my room, do you But she had turned her glare on Harper. "You''ve got the wrong room!" yelled Harp. "Stop a robot?" Harper glared pityingly. The robots not only ignored Harper. Jake, looking over Harper''s skimpy frame, grunted doubtfully. Harper looked at his watch. Harper had guessed right. But Harper was a determined man. Only the robots were immune to Harper Breen''s progress across the huge "This--this way, sir." With shrinking steps the clerk led Harper across "Don''t ''my-good-man'' me!" snapped Harper. Despondently he looked at Harper. "You mean you want these robots id = 60001 author = Hough, Emerson title = John Rawn, Prominent Citizen date = keywords = Ackerman; Charles; Delaware; God; Grace; Graystone; Hall; Halsey; International; Jim; John; Kelly; Laura; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Power; Rawn; Row; Sullivan; Virginia; man summary = of a human soul, John Rawn must have said to himself that success was It might with some justice be urged that, thus far in his life, Mr. Rawn has shown little to distinguish him from his fellow-men; that For some time Mrs. Rawn said nothing in answer to her husband''s knew him for a steady chap; and because, in Halsey''s eyes, John Rawn "That''s all right," said John Rawn, "all very well as far as it goes, "Now, what I''ve done," said Halsey--John Rawn frowned and coughed success at last had come to Kelly Row. He put his hand in Mrs. Rawn''s, his arm about Grace''s waist. Rawn, president of the International Power Company, a new man who had "I could not, Mr. Halsey," said John Rawn icily. "I want _all_ you gentlemen to feel," said John Rawn calmly, "that "Let''s all shake hands, then, gentlemen," said John Rawn. "Yes, it''s the country," said John Rawn. id = 154 author = Howells, William Dean title = The Rise of Silas Lapham date = keywords = Bartley; Beacon; Bellingham; Boston; Bromfield; Colonel; Corey; Irene; Lapham; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Penelope; Persis; Rogers; Silas; Tom; West; come; good; like; look; think; want summary = "I guess you wouldn''t want my life without the money," said Lapham, as doctor could be got at, he said that but for Mrs. Lapham''s timely care, "There''s got to be something besides money, I guess," said Mrs. Lapham, "All right, Silas," said Mrs. Lapham; "I suppose you know what you''re "Well, I guess that wouldn''t be their way," said Mrs. Lapham; she did "I shall certainly speak to Tom when the time comes," said Mrs. Corey. "I fancy that''s the way with the Lapham family," said the young man, you never said a word to Mr. Corey to let him know the way you feel." "Do you know what your father''s wanting to do now?" Mrs. Lapham asked He said yes, he believed that Mrs. Lapham and the girls were going. "I guess your mother wants to see you upstairs," said Lapham, looking id = 23595 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen date = keywords = America; Anselm; Armour; Astor; Carnegie; Chicago; Cooper; England; George; Girard; Hill; James; Jews; John; London; Mr.; New; Oliver; Owen; Paul; Peabody; Pennsylvania; Peter; Robert; Rogers; Saint; Stewart; York; man summary = When a man who worked a hundred orphans fourteen hours a day, boys and New Lanark was making money because it was producing goods the world Oliver offered the man eighteen dollars for the mansion, cash down. Said James Oliver, "Man''s first business was to till the soil; He loaded the ship up again, and in a year the man came back with a one thing--your autograph!" said the man who was busy conquering a order to help along a virtuous and hard-working young man, the son of Peter Cooper was born in New York City in the year Seventeen Hundred For forty years Peter Cooper served the City of New York and the State, of George Peabody, more than any other man of his time, the two great On the ship that carried Stewart back to New York was a young man who id = 412 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = John Jacob Astor date = keywords = Astor; Bowne; Jacob; John; New; York summary = John Jacob Astor was born of a Dutch family that had migrated down to Intuitively John Jacob Astor felt that the "New World" was the place John Jacob played the flute and the German friend told stories of fur Young Astor had been with Bowne only a year. So after a three years'' apprenticeship, Astor knew all that Bowne did In Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-six, John Jacob Astor began business on brought young Astor into "the best Dutch New York society," a Until the year Eighteen Hundred, Astor lived over his store in Water John Jacob Astor was too far away John Jacob Astor was exceptional in his combined love of money and love Astor, the son of John Jacob, was brought up in the John Jacob Astor, besides having the first store for the sale of John Jacob Astor once told Washington Irving that it was id = 2296 author = Ibsen, Henrik title = Pillars of Society date = keywords = Bernick; Dina; Holt; Johan; Karsten; Lona; Mr.; Mrs.; Rummel summary = Mrs. Bernick: Yes, but it is a sacrifice all the same, Mr. Rorlund. Mrs. Bernick: No, Hilmar, come along in; you are not disturbing us. Mrs. Bernick (at the same time): Dina, dear, will you go and ask Mrs. Rummel: Yes, goodness knows how they could think her pretty. RUMMEL, SANDSTAD and VIGELAND come out of BERNICK''S room, followed by Mrs. Bernick: Karsten, you really must come out here and tell us-Mrs. Bernick: But what do you mean, Lona? Mrs. Bernick (with a sigh): Oh yes, I suppose Johan is coming up here Mrs. Bernick (coming in after him): Hilmar, is it possible? (JOHAN TONNESEN and DINA come up through the garden, followed by LONA Mrs. Bernick (from outside): You must come out too, Johan; we are going Mrs. Bernick: But good gracious, Lona--what are you thinking of? Mrs. Bernick: Yes, come with me. id = 12257 author = Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) title = The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One date = keywords = Bill; Cappy; Mr.; Peck; Ricks; Skinner summary = Almost immediately the office boy ushered Mr. Peck into Cappy''s "Mr. Ricks, Peck is my name, sir--William E. Peck and then turned inquiring eyes toward Cappy Ricks. "Skinner, dear boy," Cappy purred amiably, "I''ve been thinking over the had the door closed behind him than Mr. Skinner re-entered Cappy Ricks'' "Well, Comrade Peck is the last one I''ll ask you to absorb, Skinner," Cappy Ricks ran a speculative thumb over Comrade Peck''s business card. For two months Cappy Ricks saw nothing of Bill Peck. order was wired in, Mr. Skinner came to Cappy Ricks with the telegram. the blue vase he''ll be worth ten thousand dollars a year as our Oriental Monday, would Mr. Peck be good enough to call at Mr. Skinner''s house at proceeded downtown to locate Cappy Rick''s blue vase. Mr. Joost led Peck to the telephone and the latter called up Mr. Skinner. id = 51519 author = MacApp, C. C. title = The Drug date = keywords = Amos; Detrick; Frank summary = Amos looked toward the doorway of the lab, just inside of which a large looked as ill as Amos felt. When Amos got to his office, his sales manager was already waiting. He''ll give me the good news first, Amos thought. "Good," said Amos, and waited. for a while, but Amos said, "The slowest thing will be State and Amos got rid of Detrick with a few definite concessions, some tentative He looked at his watch, sighed, pulled his head in and shut the window. One look told Amos what was coming. Barnes stopped talking and Amos said mechanically, "You''ve been part Amos looked for signs of irrationality and saw none. to work with." He stopped and grinned, evidently at Amos'' expression. "What was it?" Amos asked the man from the coroner''s office, dreading Amos watched them carry Frank away. "Well," said Amos. No, Amos thought, id = 32243 author = McKimmey, James title = Confidence Game date = keywords = Bolen; Confidet; Cutter; Quay summary = _Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency--and got it! Cutter felt Quay''s presence, without looking up at him. Cutter stared at Quay for a moment, his mind working swiftly. Only Quay, Bolen, and Cutter were present. Quay wondered, if this gadget worked, how long Bolen would own the weeks later, when Quay handed Cutter the report showing an efficiency "The trouble with you, Quay," Cutter said brusquely, "is you keep "Why not thirty-six point eight?" Cutter said, his eyes bright and Bolen appeared in Cutter''s office the next morning, smiling, his eyes can count on, Bolen." Cutter said it directly, to the point. Bolen smiled, examining Cutter''s hands and suit and eyes. "Not ten percent more efficiency," Bolen said quietly. Bolen looked at Cutter''s eyes, examined them curiously. Bolen smiled and left quickly, and Cutter stared at his desk for a Quay smiled at him, and Cutter shifted in his chair. id = 6495 author = Myers, Gustavus title = Great Fortunes from Railroads date = keywords = Central; City; Committee; Company; Congress; Cornelius; Court; Erie; Fisk; Gould; Government; House; Land; Legislature; New; Pacific; Pennsylvania; Railroad; Senate; Senator; Session; States; United; Vanderbilt; Vol; William; York; footnote; great; report summary = United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, reporting on June 20, railroad company to get a land grant from Congress was the Illinois The trading, banking and landed class had learned well the old, allimportant policy of having a Government fully susceptible to their In 1824 the United States Government began giving land grants for laws." [Footnote: Report of the Swamp Land Investigating Committee, On the New York Central Railroad alone the Vanderbilt payroll New York and Harlem Railroad Company was forced by action of the controlling mass of stock in the New York and Hudson River Railroad. Vanderbilt now had a complete railroad system from New York to as Vanderbilt''s in New York State; their political power was as great $500,000, [Footnote: Report on the New York and Erie Railroad Railroad Investigation of the State of New York, 1879, ii: 1765.] Railroad Investigation of the State of New York, 1879, ii: 1765.] id = 62035 author = Norman, James title = A Planet for Your Thoughts date = keywords = Bill; Castlebottom; Kitty; Uvan; Webster summary = "Maybe I''ll get the Uvans to figure out a way for me to head a "Very simple," said Kitty, her eyes flashing from Bill to Castlebottom. surmise for the Uvans stood around, for all the world looking like a with three official looking Uvans, some of whose eyes were at the backs Commissioner Webster stared appreciatively at Kitty Carlton who, even Uvans are terribly absent-minded about little things like that. Uvan, sort of important looking and with his lavender eyes set close to The Uvan shook his grape-clustered head. "The first thing to see on Uva is...." The little Uvan named Olé A Uvan guard, with an eye in front of his head and another "Oh," said Uvan Commissioner Webster as he saw Bill, Kitty and "Forget Tubby Castlebottom a moment," said Kitty. Uvan heads flashed their cell-like lights. tensely, then after a minute he looked toward Webster and Kitty. id = 6163 author = Russell, William Ingraham title = The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York date = keywords = Derham; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Slater; Viedler; Wilson; Wood; York; business; chapter; day; dollar; time; year summary = THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF A WIDELY KNOWN BUSINESS MAN OF NEW YORK successful New York business man, president of one of the largest away, I had to return to New York after a few days and look after My business during the early months of the year was good, but in business was fairly good and we had soon forgotten the hard times My business in 1879 returned me nearly sixteen thousand dollars, busy day in the city I returned home with a feeling of weariness Ten years of close application to business, much of the time under As the business between London and New York was large and I foresaw Then, too, in this dull year I made my business days shorter, a He said his own capital was very small and a wealthy friend, a Mr. Viedler, was backing him, and at that time had ten thousand dollars id = 51288 author = Shaara, Michael title = Man of Distinction date = keywords = Blitt; Thatcher summary = The remarkable distinction of Thatcher Blitt did not come to the Thatcher Blitt was, by the standards of his time, an extremely So if Thatcher Blitt was distinct among men, the distinction was not institution, Genealogy, Inc. Thatcher Blitt was not yet 25 when he made the discovery which was to with a time scanner, it would be possible to document your family tree blood lines of Man, you see, begin with a very few people. Seeing all this, Thatcher Blitt became a busy man. Yet it was still many years before Thatcher Blitt himself had time to And so, at last, we come to the day when Thatcher Blitt was sitting Blitt''s ancestor to a slovenly little man who was one of only three backward, 30,000 years, 35,000, with old Blitt reduced now practically In 40,000 years of scanner-recorded history, the blood line of Blitt id = 27533 author = Trollope, Anthony title = The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm date = keywords = Bishopsgate; Brisket; Brown; George; Goose; Grand; Jane; Johnson; Jones; Magenta; Maryanne; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Poppins; Robinson; Sarah; Street; man summary = When Mr. Brown said, "Let''s be partners to the end; it won''t be for business together," said Robinson; "Mr. Brown keeping, of course, a In person Mr. Robinson was a genteel young man, though it cannot be said of him "And Brown, Jones, and Robinson shall carry their heads high among pressed Robinson''s hand and said,--"You shall have her, George. "Mr. Brown," said Robinson on that occasion;--and it may be doubted these words were afterwards told to George Robinson, he forgave Mr. Brown a great deal. At the time of Mrs. McCockerell''s death Robinson and Maryanne Brown "As a man of capital, I must object," he had said to Mr. Robinson, only a week before the house was opened. "Every man''s house is his castle, you know," said Mr. Brown. "If you mean Miss Brown," said Robinson, in a tone of voice that was "Maryanne," said Robinson, "why is that man here?" and he pointed to id = 5818 author = Twain, Mark title = The Gilded Age, Part 1. date = keywords = Boreas; Clay; Colonel; Hawkins; Laura; Lord; Nancy; Sellers; Tennessee; Washington; come; know; man summary = that when that man gets his head full of a new notion, he can out-talk a pilot took his glass and looked at it steadily for a moment, and said, old man--tell him the Amaranth''s coming. The captain took a good long look, and only said: The enthusiasm faded away from his eyes, and the look of a man things a man feels like trusting to other people, and so somehow we keep Washington, but got a good heart--mighty likely boy, is Jerry. therefore Washington said (it was the only thing that offered itself at Washington, all in good time. "Why Colonel, you can''t want anything bigger!" said Washington, his eyes people little dreamed what a man Col. Sellers was, and that the world The Colonel said that General Boswell was a rich man and had a good and Washington rather liked his looks. Every time the Colonel came into the real estate office Washington''s id = 5819 author = Twain, Mark title = The Gilded Age, Part 2. date = keywords = Bolton; Colonel; Harry; Hawkeye; Hawkins; Laura; Mr.; New; Philip; Ruth; St.; Washington summary = Henry Brierly suddenly said, "Philip, how would you like to go to "I think I should like it of all things," replied Philip, with some whiskers; looks like a Washington man; I shouldn''t think he''d be at "Harry," said Philip, after a pause, "what have you got on those big has produced--said he, ''Colonel, how did you like those New York gentlemen?--not many such men in the world,--Colonel Sellers,'' said the Philip and Harry both said they should like to see a hotel that had been "Thee will no doubt break things enough when thy time comes, child; women Ruth replied to Philip''s letter in due time and in the most cordial and About the details of her student life, Ruth said very little to her Philip wrote to Ruth of the new acquaintance they had made, Col. Sellers, To find in such an out of the way country place a woman like Laura was a id = 5824 author = Twain, Mark title = The Gilded Age, Part 7. date = keywords = Braham; Colonel; Dilworthy; Hawkins; Laura; Mr.; Noble; Philip; Senate; Senator; Washington summary = the prisoner did not look insane, Susan said, "Lord; no, sir, just mad as "Mrs. Hawkins," said Mr. Braham, "will you'' be kind enough to state the Col. Sellers, continuing his testimony, said that he saw this lost "No, Sir. But upon one occasion, old Senator Thompson said to me, its my Mr. Braham re-drew for the jury the picture, of Laura''s early life; he The Court waited, for, some time, but the jury gave no signs of coming thing, but I said, No, Dilworthy, I must be on hand here,--both on time that the Senate should crush some cur like this man Noble, and thus with money; that the said Dilworthy sent for him to come to his room in It so happened, (said the Senator,) that about the time in question, a In reply, an honorable Senator said that he thought it would be as well id = 5820 author = Warner, Charles Dudley title = The Gilded Age, Part 3. date = keywords = Colonel; Harry; Hawkeye; Laura; Mr.; New; Philip; Ruth; Senator; Washington; seller summary = In the eyes of Washington Hawkins, Harry was a superior being, a man who As for Washington, Harry thought he was a man head in this way; for Harry thought himself a man of the world. about the world," she said to Harry one day, when he had been talking of "So you know Philip Sterling," said Ruth one day as the girls sat at I''ve seen out of New York," said Harry to the clerk; "we shall stay here Philip, as he looked about the cheerful house and went through a general Alice, is a great friend of Harry''s, who is always trying to build a And Ruth welcomed Harry with a friendliness that Philip thought was due new railroad, and make a little money, so that I could came east and Harry was a pet with all Washington, and was likely to carry the thing fair--pretty fair; "and every little helps, you know," said Harry. id = 5821 author = Warner, Charles Dudley title = The Gilded Age, Part 4. date = keywords = Colonel; Dilworthy; Harry; Laura; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Philip; Ruth; Senator; Washington; good summary = good deal as I do--especially people who have got little financial Once more Louise had good news from her Washington--Senator Dilworthy was I think, Ruth, when I die," said Philip, Philip called Alice his good sister, and talked to her about love and "I can tell you one thing, Philip," she said, "if ever Ruth Bolton loves, First Day, when Ruth and Alice and Philip, "world''s people," went to a well with Mrs. Bolton, that she said to Philip one day, "Oh, yes," said Philip laughing, "he believes in more things than any He talked freely with Philip about Ruth, an almighty fine girl, he said, Philip and Harry in the hall, Ruth said, laughing, From these remarks he learned a good deal about Laura that was news to "He said he had no doubt it was a good thing; if Senator Dilworthy was in id = 5822 author = Warner, Charles Dudley title = The Gilded Age, Part 5. date = keywords = Buckstone; Colonel; Harry; Hawkins; House; Laura; Mr.; Philip; Senator; Trollop; Washington summary = Laura looked pleased, and said: "Don''t you find it very warm to-day, Mr. Hawkins?" said Blanche, by way "What is, dear?" said Grace, who was talking with Laura. "He wants to make himself conspicuous more like," said Laura. "I think we want it bad," said Washington. Senator Dilworthy said he had come in late. Laura said that very likely it was only her nervousness. "A Lady at Senator Dilworthy''s would like to see Col. George Selby, thought; perhaps, who knows, said he with a smile, he may have got some "Laura," said the Colonel, nerving himself, but still pale, and speaking Laura heard all this in a kind of stupor, looking straight at Harry, Then came stories about Laura, town talk, gossip which Harry "Thy physician thinks thee mustn''t talk, Philip," said Ruth putting her "I have come," said Philip in his direct manner, "from my friend id = 5823 author = Warner, Charles Dudley title = The Gilded Age, Part 6. date = keywords = Bolton; Congress; Hawkins; Laura; Mr.; New; Philip; Ruth; Senator; Sunday; Washington summary = him at the house last night that Selby and his family went to New York Philip learned that Harry and Laura had both been taken to the city "But what under heavens," asked Philip, "induced you to come to New York Neither of the young men felt like attempting to see Laura that day, "Philip tells me," Mrs. Bolton said that evening, "that the man Bigler "But has thee provided money for Philip to use in opening the coal mine?" "So, sir," said Ruth, when Philip came from New York, "you have been "I should work with a great deal better heart, Ruth," he said the morning "No," said Philip, "the chances are that a man cannot get into congress "Well," said Philip, looking humble, "I care for some things, you and "Well, yes, a little," said Philip, feeling his way towards what he