Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 94
... phonograph to South America was Henry's ; but I took to it freely , being fond of machinery of all kinds . " The Latin races , ' says Henry , explaining easy in the idioms he learned at college , are peculiarly adapted to be victims of ...
... phonograph to South America was Henry's ; but I took to it freely , being fond of machinery of all kinds . " The Latin races , ' says Henry , explaining easy in the idioms he learned at college , are peculiarly adapted to be victims of ...
Pagina 95
... phonograph in Texarkana · one of the best make and half a trunkful of rec- ords . We packed up , and took the T. and P. for New Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South ...
... phonograph in Texarkana · one of the best make and half a trunkful of rec- ords . We packed up , and took the T. and P. for New Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South ...
Pagina 97
... phonograph , has never invaded these shores . The people have never heard it . They would not believe it if they should . Simple - hearted children of nature , progress has never condemned them to ac- cept the work of a can - opener as ...
... phonograph , has never invaded these shores . The people have never heard it . They would not believe it if they should . Simple - hearted children of nature , progress has never condemned them to ac- cept the work of a can - opener as ...
Pagina 99
... phonograph around , and had wassail and diversions . Everywhere The Phonograph and the Graft 99.
... phonograph around , and had wassail and diversions . Everywhere The Phonograph and the Graft 99.
Pagina 100
O. Henry. phonograph around , and had wassail and diversions . Everywhere we found doors open we went inside and set the machine going , and Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the ...
O. Henry. phonograph around , and had wassail and diversions . Everywhere we found doors open we went inside and set the machine going , and Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the ...
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Pagina 14 - Nibj skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...