item: #1 of 30 id: 12257 author: Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) title: The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One date: None words: 11583 flesch: 86 summary: Young Mr. Peck knew it too, and smiled graciously upon the general manager, for young Mr. Peck had been in the army, where one of the first great lessons to be assimilated is this: that the commanding general's request is always tantamount to an order. He's hopping mad right now, because he can't say a word in his own defense, but if he doesn't make hell look like a summer holiday for Mr. Bill Peck, I'm due to be mercifully chloroformed. keywords: bill; blue; cappy; cohn; good; job; man; matt; office; peck; ricks; sir; skinner; vase cache: 12257.txt plain text: 12257.txt item: #2 of 30 id: 13152 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Firm of Girdlestone date: None words: 140439 flesch: 84 summary: Eh, mister, what's that? cried a haggard, unkempt little man, pushing his way to the front and catching hold of Ezra's sleeve to ensure his attention. I have no personal inclination towards medicine, while I have a very strong objection to simply living in the world upon money which other men have earned. keywords: baumser; black; boy; burt; business; captain; chance; chapter; companion; course; dark; dat; day; dear; dimsdale; doctor; door; end; eyes; ezra; ezra girdlestone; face; father; fellow; find; firm; friend; girdlestone; girl; good; great; guardian; half; hand; harston; head; heart; hope; house; john; kate; lady; lay; left; life; like; london; look; major; man; manner; matter; men; merchant; miggs; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; office; place; pounds; right; room; round; saw; says; set; sir; son; street; table; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; von; want; way; white; window; woman; word; work cache: 13152.txt plain text: 13152.txt item: #3 of 30 id: 154 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Rise of Silas Lapham date: None words: 133995 flesch: 88 summary: Mrs. Lapham was even better satisfied with their bargain than the Colonel himself, and they had lived in Nankeen Square for twelve years. They had seen the saplings planted in the pretty oval round which the houses were built flourish up into sturdy young trees, and their two little girls in the same period had grown into young ladies; the Colonel's tough frame had expanded into the bulk which Bartley's interview indicated; and Mrs. Lapham, while keeping a more youthful outline, showed the sharp print of the crow's-foot at the corners of her motherly eyes, and certain slight creases in her wholesome cheeks. keywords: bartley; business; colonel; colonel lapham; come; corey; course; day; door; eyes; face; family; father; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; help; home; house; husband; irene; lapham; left; life; look; man; mind; money; mother; mrs; new; office; paint; penelope; people; place; right; rogers; room; round; saw; silas; sister; son; talk; things; think; thought; time; tom; want; way; wife; young cache: 154.txt plain text: 154.txt item: #4 of 30 id: 19272 author: Chester, George Randolph title: The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story date: None words: 44910 flesch: 82 summary: TURNER PLUNGES INTO THE BUSINESS OF RESTING At Meadow Brook Sam Turner found W. W. Westlake, of the Westlake Electric Company, a big, placid man with a mild gray eye and an appearance of well-fed and kindly laziness; a man also who had the record of having ruthlessly smashed more business competitors than any two other pirates in his line. Well, Sam Turner, said Mr. Stevens, stroking his aggressive beard, I hear you got it, confound you! keywords: billy; brook; brother; business; company; creek; father; good; hand; hastings; hollis; josephine; meadow; men; miss; miss stevens; moment; morning; porch; princeman; pulp; right; sam; sam turner; stevens; stock; thing; thought; time; turner; way; westlake cache: 19272.txt plain text: 19272.txt item: #5 of 30 id: 2296 author: Ibsen, Henrik title: Pillars of Society date: None words: 32696 flesch: 92 summary: by Henrik Ibsen Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp DRAMATIS PERSONAE Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder. Mrs. Bernick, his wife. Mrs. Bernick: A book like that really gives one something to think about. keywords: aune; bernick; betty; community; dina; door; good; hilmar; johan; karsten; krap; lona; look; man; martha; mrs; olaf; right; rorlund; rummel cache: 2296.txt plain text: 2296.txt item: #6 of 30 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: None words: 95367 flesch: 80 summary: Books were written by good men picturing the evils of the factory system. He declared that great men and great animals always came from the same soil, and where you could produce good horses and cattle you could grow great men. keywords: america; andrew; armour; astor; boy; boys; business; carnegie; children; city; company; cooper; country; day; dollars; england; fact; family; father; george; girard; good; great; half; hand; head; hill; home; house; iron; james; jews; john; know; life; london; love; making; man; mayer; men; miles; mill; money; mother; new; oil; oliver; order; owen; paul; pay; peabody; people; peter; philip; place; poor; power; railroad; right; robert; rogers; rothschild; saint; school; ship; son; stewart; store; success; things; thirty; thought; time; town; trade; village; way; william; woman; work; world; years; york; young cache: 23595.txt plain text: 23595.txt item: #7 of 30 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: None words: 92612 flesch: 80 summary: To My Son Upon the Occasion of His Having a Misunderstanding with Agnes Elliston_ He submitted the envelope with many qualms and misgivings, though without apology, but one glance at Bobby's face as that young gentleman read the inscription relieved him of all responsibility in the matter, for if ever a face showed guilt, that face was the face of Bobby Burnit. Thereupon Bobby Burnit, President De Graff and Dan Elliston, representing the New Brightlight Electric Company, recently organized for three million dollars, came forward and prayed for a franchise for the electric lighting of the entire city, agreeing to take over the poles and wiring of the Consolidated at a fair valuation; and council was not at all obdurate, which was scarcely strange when one reflected that every member of that municipal body had been selected and put in place through the direct instrumentality of Bobby Burnit. keywords: agnes; applerod; bates; biff; big; bobby; bobby burnit; brightlight; bulletin; burnit; business; chalmers; city; club; company; consolidated; course; dan; day; desk; dollars; door; electric; elliston; eyes; face; fact; father; good; half; hands; head; johnson; jolter; left; letter; life; look; looking; man; matter; men; moment; money; morning; new; office; old; people; place; platt; property; right; room; saw; sharpe; silas; sir; smile; stock; stone; street; think; thought; time; trimmer; want; way; work; years; young cache: 26485.txt plain text: 26485.txt item: #8 of 30 id: 27533 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm date: None words: 71794 flesch: 85 summary: When Mr. Brown said, Let's be partners to the end; it won't be for long, Mr. Robinson, I never said another word. It was finally arranged that Mr. Robinson should have carte blanche at his own particular line of business, to the extent of fifteen hundred pounds, and that Mr. Brown should go into the warehouse and lay out a similar sum in goods. keywords: brisket; brown; business; course; day; days; father; firm; george robinson; good; hand; heart; house; johnson; jones; lady; like; look; love; magenta; man; maryanne; maryanne brown; men; miss; moment; money; mrs; partner; poppins; robinson; room; shop; street; tell; thing; time; trade; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 27533.txt plain text: 27533.txt item: #9 of 30 id: 30299 author: Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson title: The Romance of a Plain Man date: None words: 130696 flesch: 83 summary: It used to be the custom to address the lady you were engaged to as 'Miss Sally' up to the day of the marriage. George--I mean old George--was telling me about you, Ben, he went on after a minute, and as soon as I heard of your troubles, I said to Tina--'We've got a roof and we've got a bite, so they'll come to us.' keywords: aunt; ben; big; black; boy; child; day; dear; doctor; door; end; eyes; face; father; garden; general; george; girl; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; instant; lady; left; life; little; look; love; man; matoaca; men; mind; minute; miss; mitty; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; place; poor; president; railroad; red; room; rose; sally; south; street; table; tell; theophilus; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; work; years cache: 30299.txt plain text: 30299.txt item: #10 of 30 id: 32243 author: McKimmey, James title: Confidence Game date: None words: 7029 flesch: 83 summary: That's right, Mr. Cutter. Some men, he said very slowly, are different than others, Mr. Cutter. keywords: bolen; chair; cutter; efficiency; eyes; man; percent; quay cache: 32243.txt plain text: 32243.txt item: #11 of 30 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: None words: 91268 flesch: 80 summary: Mr. Wallingford Takes a Dose of His Own Bitter Medicine 111 CHAPTER IX. Mr. Wallingford Shows Mr. Clover How to Do the Widows and Orphans Good 129 CHAPTER X. keywords: away; battlesburg; blackie; business; cash; cent; chapter; cigar; clover; come; company; daw; day; days; dollars; door; eyes; face; farmers; friend; good; half; hand; head; home; hotel; house; j. rufus; jasper; klug; lamb; left; life; line; look; machine; man; matter; maylie; moment; money; morning; mrs; neil; new; patent; pay; place; pocket; price; right; room; rufus wallingford; stock; tack; thing; thought; time; town; wallingford; way; wheat; wife; work; worth; years cache: 37010.txt plain text: 37010.txt item: #12 of 30 id: 412 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: John Jacob Astor date: None words: 6599 flesch: 79 summary: Robert Bowne, the good old Quaker, insisted that Jacob should call him Robert; and from boarding the young man with a near-by war widow who took cheap boarders, Bowne took young Astor to his own house, and raised his pay from two dollars a week to six. But young Astor was seemingly indifferent. keywords: astor; bowne; dollars; furs; jacob; john; man; men; money; new; time; washington; york cache: 412.txt plain text: 412.txt item: #13 of 30 id: 4353 author: Chester, George Randolph title: Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress date: None words: 55308 flesch: 85 summary: FIVE THOUSAND AN HOUR How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER Author of THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT, THE EARLY BIRD, GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY RALEIGH CONTENTS I WHICH INTRODUCES JOHNNY GAMBLE AND HIS LAST HUNDRED DOLLARS II IN WHICH STRANGERS BECOME OLD FRIENDS III IN WHICH JOHNNY GAMBLE MIXES BUSINESS AND PLEASURE IV IN WHICH GRESHAM FINDS JOHNNY'S OLD PARTNER ACCOMMODATING V IN WHICH JOHNNY DISPLAYS TALENT Johnny, did you say I should put you on the other list for the same amount? Constance leaned hastily forward, with the impulse to interfere against so foolhardy a thing, but caught herself; and, leaning back, she looked at Johnny Gamble in profile and smiled. keywords: business; close; collaton; colonel; company; constance; courtney; day; dollars; ersten; eyes; good; gresham; half; hand; heinrich; hotel; johnny; johnny gamble; joy; loring; man; million; miss; money; morning; mrs; new; place; polly; property; right; sammy; schnitt; smile; thought; time; washer; way; work cache: 4353.txt plain text: 4353.txt item: #14 of 30 id: 51288 author: Shaara, Michael title: Man of Distinction date: None words: 2166 flesch: 78 summary: Westward back into the French caves, southward into Spain and across the unrecognizable Mediterranean into a verdant North Africa, backward in time past even the Cro-Magnons, and yet ever backward, 30,000 years, 35,000, with old Blitt reduced now practically to gibbering and still never an exceptional forebear. The remarkable distinction of Thatcher Blitt did not come to the attention of a bemused world until late in the year 2180. keywords: blitt; man; thatcher; time cache: 51288.txt plain text: 51288.txt item: #15 of 30 id: 51362 author: Haggert, W. T. title: Lex date: None words: 7891 flesch: 84 summary: Or are you one of these birds that had the shot paid for him? I worked my way through, said Peter stiffly. Clay, at the Association of Professional Engineers, who had set up the appointment, hadn't eased Peter's nervousness by admitting, I don't know what in hell he's looking for. keywords: door; lexington; machine; man; materials; peter; things; time; voice; way cache: 51362.txt plain text: 51362.txt item: #16 of 30 id: 51519 author: MacApp, C. C. title: The Drug date: None words: 4861 flesch: 90 summary: Amos Parry, a regional manager for Whelan, Inc. (Farm & Ranch Chemicals & Feeds), had come to work a few minutes early and was waiting in the lab when Frank Barnes arrived. Barnes stopped talking and Amos said mechanically, You've been part of the team for a long time, Frank. keywords: amos; barnes; detrick; frank; man; mind; right; thought cache: 51519.txt plain text: 51519.txt item: #17 of 30 id: 51726 author: Budrys, Algis title: Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night date: None words: 7817 flesch: 85 summary: Too public, Mr. Sollenar. Mr. Sollenar, do you have any idea how many of our members are involved in your fortunes? keywords: burr; city; ermine; hand; head; iab; man; martian; office; sollenar cache: 51726.txt plain text: 51726.txt item: #18 of 30 id: 5818 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 1. date: None words: 24879 flesch: 81 summary: There can't be two! We gone dis time--we done gone dis time, sho'! Uncle Dan'l(colored,) aged 40; his wife, aunt Jinny, aged 30, Young Miss Emily Hawkins, Young Mars Washington Hawkins and Young Mars Clay, the new member of the family, ranged themselves on a log, after supper, and contemplated the marvelous river and discussed it. keywords: children; clay; colonel; come; day; eyes; family; father; good; hands; hawkins; head; heart; house; know; land; look; lord; man; moment; nancy; people; right; sellers; thing; time; washington; water; way; world cache: 5818.txt plain text: 5818.txt item: #19 of 30 id: 5819 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 2. date: None words: 23799 flesch: 76 summary: If he were good enough he would attach himself to that company of young men in the Theological Seminary, who were seeing New York life in preparation for the ministry. We'll buy the lands, explained he, on long time, backed by the notes of good men; and then mortgage them for money enough to get the road well on. keywords: city; colonel; country; day; good; harry; hawkeye; laura; life; man; men; money; mother; new; philip; room; ruth; sellers; thee; thing; thought; time; town; washington; way; world; years cache: 5819.txt plain text: 5819.txt item: #20 of 30 id: 5820 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 3. date: None words: 21327 flesch: 73 summary: Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. When the young gentlemen were on their way back to the hotel, Mr. Philip, who was not in very good humor, broke out, What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues for? Go on? cried Harry. keywords: colonel; country; day; father; good; harry; hawkeye; house; laura; life; man; men; money; new; philip; ruth; sellers; senator; thee; thing; thought; time; washington; way; woman cache: 5820.txt plain text: 5820.txt item: #21 of 30 id: 5821 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 4. date: None words: 24137 flesch: 79 summary: Said he: Have you ever read this, ma'm? There's your official salaries--you can't get good men for nothing. keywords: company; course; day; dilworthy; good; harry; lady; land; laura; man; men; mind; miss; money; mrs; new; people; philip; right; ruth; saw; senator; sir; thing; thought; time; washington; way cache: 5821.txt plain text: 5821.txt item: #22 of 30 id: 5822 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 5. date: None words: 22992 flesch: 82 summary: Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid.' But Mr. Washington Hawkins (one of the heirs) objected. keywords: bill; buckstone; colonel; day; dilworthy; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; miss; philip; senator; thing; thought; time; trollop; vote; washington; way; woman cache: 5822.txt plain text: 5822.txt item: #23 of 30 id: 5823 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 6. date: None words: 21510 flesch: 79 summary: She needn't be looking down, he thought, for she was ever so much shorter than tall Philip. Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy. keywords: bolton; coal; congress; day; family; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; men; money; new; people; philip; ruth; senator; sunday; thing; thought; time; washington; woman cache: 5823.txt plain text: 5823.txt item: #24 of 30 id: 5824 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 7. date: None words: 23166 flesch: 79 summary: The University was on file for its third reading this day, and to-morrow Washington would be a millionaire and Sellers no longer, impecunious but this day, also, or at farthest the next, the jury in Laura's Case would come to a decision of some kind or other--they would find her guilty, Washington secretly feared, and then the care and the trouble would all come back again, and these would be wearing months of besieging judges for new trials; on this day, also, the re-election of Mr. Dilworthy to the Senate would take place. The next telegram was from Mr. Dilworthy: I have not only brought over the Great Invincible, but through him a dozen more of the opposition. keywords: braham; colonel; day; dilworthy; hawkins; honor; judge; jury; laura; life; man; mind; money; new; noble; philip; ruth; sellers; senate; senator; sir; time; washington; way cache: 5824.txt plain text: 5824.txt item: #25 of 30 id: 60001 author: Hough, Emerson title: John Rawn, Prominent Citizen date: None words: 103139 flesch: 88 summary: III It was rarely that ever a smile enlivened the somewhat heavy features of young John Rawn, even in the earliest stages of his babyhood. Most frequently parents are alone in this manner of belief as to their offspring; but the severity of countenance, the grave assuredness of young John Rawn, forced this belief upon the entire community. keywords: air; business; care; charles; company; country; course; day; delaware; dollars; door; eyes; face; good; grace; great; half; hall; halsey; hand; home; idea; international; john rawn; laura; laura rawn; life; like; look; love; man; men; mind; money; mrs; new; people; place; power; rawn; right; row; sort; table; talk; things; thought; time; truth; virginia; virginia rawn; way; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 60001.txt plain text: 60001.txt item: #26 of 30 id: 60849 author: Castle, Arnold title: When Day is Done date: None words: 2102 flesch: 87 summary: Well, that was okay--Bernard had been a late-runner in his youth. So Bernard entered the rap-tran alone, though surrounded by scores of pushing, jabbering strangers. keywords: bernard; jungle; panthers; pistol cache: 60849.txt plain text: 60849.txt item: #27 of 30 id: 6163 author: Russell, William Ingraham title: The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York date: None words: 54517 flesch: 75 summary: CHAPTER XXXVI THE SHIP FOUNDERS December 17, 1895, will ever remain in the memory of business men, at least of this generation, as the day when President Cleveland transmitted to Congress his Venezuelan message, a piece of jingoism which was entirely uncalled for and resulted in disastrous consequences to the commercial interests of the country. Our treatment of these people was not good business in the general sense. keywords: account; business; capital; chapter; country; course; day; days; dollars; family; firm; friends; good; hand; home; house; interest; life; london; love; man; market; matter; men; mind; money; months; mrs; new; office; place; price; slater; stock; thought; time; trade; way; wife; years; york cache: 6163.txt plain text: 6163.txt item: #28 of 30 id: 62035 author: Norman, James title: A Planet for Your Thoughts date: None words: 8383 flesch: 89 summary: * * * * * Oh, said Uvan Commissioner Webster as he saw Bill, Kitty and Olé stumble into the parlor of his residence, I thought you were the Tubby person. Soon they came in droves, crowding into the fantastic market-place, staring up at Bill with quizzical curiosity. keywords: bill; castlebottom; caviar; etheroel; eyes; head; kitty; look; uvan; webster cache: 62035.txt plain text: 62035.txt item: #29 of 30 id: 63616 author: Haley, A. L. title: Hagerty's Enzymes date: None words: 4993 flesch: 89 summary: Harper Breen sank down gingerly into the new Relaxo-Lounge. Harper tried to let go of everything. keywords: clerk; desk; harper; man; right; robots; room; scribney cache: 63616.txt plain text: 63616.txt item: #30 of 30 id: 6495 author: Myers, Gustavus title: Great Fortunes from Railroads date: None words: 104333 flesch: 60 summary: Many other men did the same, and yet in the vicissitudes of business went bankrupt; the realm of business was full of wrecks. The probabilities are that the voting power of the New York Central, the Lake Shore and other Vanderbilt lines is passing into the hands of the Standard Oil interests, of which Harriman was both a part and an ally. keywords: acres; act; bonds; business; capitalists; central; city; class; classes; coal; committee; companies; company; congress; control; corporations; corruption; cost; court; day; dollars; erie; erie railroad; fact; fisk; footnote; fortune; frauds; fraudulent; general; gould; government; grants; house; industrial; interests; labor; land; law; laws; legislature; life; line; magnates; man; means; methods; millions; money; new york; number; officials; order; owners; pacific; pay; pennsylvania; people; power; price; profits; property; public; railroad; railroad company; report; senate; session; states; stock; street; sum; system; time; union; united; united states; vanderbilt; vanderbilt fortune; war; way; wealth; william; workers; working; years; york city cache: 6495.txt plain text: 6495.txt