item: #1 of 26 id: 10932 author: Palmer, Frederick title: Over the Pass date: None words: 117888 flesch: 85 summary: Jack Wingfield! said Jack, on his own account. The gloomier he was the better he went and the better Jack Wingfield liked him; which was Bob's way of interpreting Jack's instructions. keywords: answer; care; coming; day; desert; doctor; doge; door; ear; end; ewold; eyes; face; father; firio; galway; glance; god; going; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jack; jack wingfield; jag; jasper; jim; john; kind; know; leddy; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; p.d; pass; pete; place; prather; right; rivers; room; rose; set; señor jack; silence; sir; smile; son; store; thing; thought; time; town; trail; turn; voice; want; water; way; wingfield; world cache: 10932.txt plain text: 10932.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 11614 author: Phillips, David Graham title: The Second Generation date: None words: 116070 flesch: 82 summary: We can hire hundreds of good men to manufacture for us. Shame on you, Arthur Ranger! keywords: adelaide; arthur; business; care; children; course; daughter; day; dory; ellen; expression; eyes; face; family; father; good; hand; hargrave; heart; hiram; home; house; human; janet; left; let; life; look; lorry; love; madelene; man; matter; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; new; people; ranger; right; room; ross; saint; scarborough; self; sense; set; son; sort; theresa; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; voice; want; way; whitney; woman; work; world cache: 11614.txt plain text: 11614.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 13146 author: Miller, Alice Duer title: The Beauty and the Bolshevist date: None words: 21688 flesch: 84 summary: For you must know, put in Eddie, hastily, that Mr. Ben Moreton does not approve of the marriage--oh, dear, no. Only don't, for goodness' sake, Mr. Ben, talk any of your ideas to them. keywords: ben; brother; cord; crystal; david; dear; eddie; father; good; hand; life; man; moreton; newport; talk; thought; time; way cache: 13146.txt plain text: 13146.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 13532 author: Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) title: Kindred of the Dust date: None words: 100514 flesch: 82 summary: He grinned at old Daney. VI The morning after the barbecue, Donald McKaye reported at eight o'clock to his father's faithful old general manager, Andrew Daney. keywords: agnew; andrew; andrew daney; boy; brent; caleb; child; course; daney; day; dear; dirty; donald; donald mckaye; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; family; father; girl; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hector; home; house; jane; know; laird; life; love; man; matter; mckaye; morning; mother; mrs; nan brent; night; office; people; pile; poor; port; port agnew; room; sawdust; sir; son; thought; time; tyee; way; wife; woman; world; years; young cache: 13532.txt plain text: 13532.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 14204 author: Klein, Charles title: The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of American Life date: None words: 84443 flesch: 79 summary: Then presenting Jefferson to Stott she said: This is Mr. Jefferson Ryder--Judge Stott. It was unusual to keep the town house open so late in the summer, but Mr. Ryder was obliged for business reasons to be in New York at this time, and Mrs. Ryder, who was one of the few American wives who do not always get their own way, had good-naturedly acquiesced in the wishes of her lord. keywords: bagley; book; burkett ryder; business; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; interests; jefferson; jefferson ryder; john; john ryder; judge; judge rossmore; kate; letters; life; like; love; man; matter; men; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; people; public; right; roberts; room; rossmore; ryder; secretary; senator; shirley; stott; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 14204.txt plain text: 14204.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 14491 author: Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith) title: The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day date: None words: 93164 flesch: 86 summary: When this head was suddenly thrown back with a peculiar motion she had noted when its owner was particularly amused over something, Ruth said to herself: Why, that's Mr. Richard Kendrick! Oh, no, you wouldn't, Mr. Richard Kendrick, said she, as quietly as one can whose breath comes with some difficulty after long-sustained exertion. keywords: benson; boy; business; car; course; day; door; eyes; face; family; girl; grandfather; gray; hand; head; home; house; judge; kendrick; life; look; louis; man; mother; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; richard; richard kendrick; roberta; room; rufus; ruth; sister; stephen; ted; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; want; way; work; world; young cache: 14491.txt plain text: 14491.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 15714 author: Gates, Eleanor title: The Poor Little Rich Girl date: None words: 57378 flesch: 94 summary: _ Gwendolyn was troubled. me a million dollars in cash if you want Miss Gwendolyn back.' keywords: bird; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; gentleman; glass; good; gwendolyn; hair; half; hand; head; jane; johnnie; know; little; look; makes; man; miss; moment; mother; nurse; nursery; piper; policeman; right; road; room; round; royle; table; thomas; time; voice; way; white; window cache: 15714.txt plain text: 15714.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 20717 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: The Girl on the Boat date: None words: 70141 flesch: 88 summary: Invited down to Windles for the day, Mr. Bennett had fallen in love with the place, and had begged her to name her own price. She had not been in America two days when there had arrived a Mr. Mortimer, bosom friend of Mr. Bennett, carrying on the matter where the other had left off. keywords: bennett; billie; bream; course; day; deck; door; eustace; eyes; face; fact; father; girl; good; head; hignett; house; hubbard; jane; life; look; love; mallaby; man; marlowe; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mortimer; mrs; peters; place; point; right; room; sam; samuel; sir; sort; thing; thought; voice; way; webster; windles cache: 20717.txt plain text: 20717.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 2186 author: Kipling, Rudyard title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks date: None words: 55583 flesch: 92 summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together. keywords: 'em; anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dories; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young cache: 2186.txt plain text: 2186.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 2225 author: Kipling, Rudyard title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks date: None words: 55571 flesch: 91 summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: How about progress and Catholic superstitions? Huh! Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together. keywords: anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; naow; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; thet; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young cache: 2225.txt plain text: 2225.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 32374 author: Garis, Howard Roger title: Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son date: None words: 64185 flesch: 92 summary: In spite of their rather flashy manners, Dick liked Simon and Guy, as he did nearly everyone, in fact--for Dick Hamilton was a large-hearted youth. He also wishes to see Mr. Dick, and he has a young man with him. keywords: boys; business; course; dad; day; dick; dick hamilton; dog; dollars; ezra; father; gold; good; grit; guy; hamilton; henry; home; house; investment; larabee; look; man; millionaire; money; new; right; simon; son; think; thought; time; uncle; want; way; york; youth cache: 32374.txt plain text: 32374.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 33926 author: Garis, Howard Roger title: Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son date: None words: 60246 flesch: 91 summary: And so Dick was not hazed, though he was the only freshman in all the academy who escaped the ordeal, and, though many lads would gladly have dispensed with the ceremony, Dick Hamilton felt as if he would have parted with some of his fortune to have been included in the unfortunate class. Three cheers for Dick Hamilton! called several, and Dick's ears rang to the sweetest music he had ever heard. keywords: academy; cadets; captain; day; dick; dick hamilton; dutton; ezra; father; game; glen; going; good; gun; hamilton; home; horse; kentfield; lads; left; let; major; man; millionaire; money; new; page; paul; place; right; room; stiver; thought; time; toots; uncle; way cache: 33926.txt plain text: 33926.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 35866 author: Titus, Harold title: "I Conquered" date: None words: 69071 flesch: 90 summary: It was man to beast, and somewhere down yonder through the generations a dead racial memory came back and Young VB, girded for the conflict, ached to have his forest foe in reach, to have the fight run high, to have his chance to dare and do in fleshly struggle! Though his meetings with other men were few and scattered, VB was coming to be liked. keywords: away; big; boy; captain; close; country; danny; day; door; eyes; face; feet; gail; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jed; left; life; lips; look; low; man; men; mind; moment; neck; new; place; ranch; rhues; right; set; stallion; thing; thorpe; thought; throat; time; voice; words cache: 35866.txt plain text: 35866.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 36170 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Son of his Father date: None words: 104378 flesch: 88 summary: Gordon Makes His Bid for Fortune XI Hazel Mallinsbee's Campaign XII Thinking Hard XIII Slosson Snatches at Opportunity XIV The Reward of Victory XV In Council XVI I have already learned that there are plenty of great men in the world whose existence I had never suspected. keywords: boy; buffalo; carbhoy; cigar; coal; come; dad; david; day; dollars; eyes; face; fall; father; feller; folks; girl; good; gordon; guess; half; hand; hazel; head; horse; know; land; laugh; left; life; mallinsbee; man; millionaire; mind; moment; nature; need; new; office; peter; place; play; point; pretty; railroad; ranch; right; set; sir; slosson; smile; snake; sort; talk; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 36170.txt plain text: 36170.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 36503 author: Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) title: A Man's Hearth date: None words: 60117 flesch: 84 summary: The clergyman did not find the familiar, easy, good-natured Tony Adriance in the man who curtly silenced delicate allusion to the wedding's unexpectedness and the surprising absence of Mr. Adriance, senior. It is one whose sign you often have viewed from the aristocratic side of the Hudson, and it is the property of Mr. Anthony Adriance, senior. keywords: adriance; anthony; book; chauffeur; color; course; day; door; elsie; eyes; face; father; fred; girl; glance; good; goodwin; gray; hand; head; holly; home; house; husband; life; love; lucille; man; masterson; men; morning; mrs; net; new; night; place; red; room; set; things; think; thought; time; tony; tony adriance; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; work cache: 36503.txt plain text: 36503.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 37269 author: Young, F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) title: The Triumph of Jill date: None words: 45418 flesch: 81 summary: Then she tossed his card into the fire with a sigh of relief, and, watching it consume, saw the last, as she supposed, of Mr John St. John. No, I do not, Mr St. John, I don't indeed. keywords: art; bolton; day; dear; erskine; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; jack; jill; john; know; look; love; man; markham; miss; studio; thing; thought; time; way; work cache: 37269.txt plain text: 37269.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 3790 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Major Barbara date: None words: 33532 flesch: 89 summary: I'm too uppish, owing to my intelligence, and my father being a Chartist and a reading, thinking man: a stationer, too. I moralized and starved until one day I swore that I would be a fullfed free man at all costs--that nothing should stop me except a bullet, neither reason nor morals nor the lives of other men. keywords: andrew; army; baines; barbara; bill; charles; cusins; dear; father; good; jenny; lady britomart; lomax; man; men; money; mother; mrs; people; price; right; salvation; sarah; shelter; shirley; stephen; undershaft; want; way cache: 3790.txt plain text: 3790.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 38171 author: Young, F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) title: Imprudence date: None words: 73981 flesch: 81 summary: The changes which had taken the others away had brought Prudence home; that was how he saw things; and he liked to have her there. I am sure I am very much obliged to you, Mr Graynor said, but with such a lack of graciousness in his manner as to cause Prudence surprise and distress. keywords: agatha; bobby; child; come; edward; eyes; face; family; girl; good; graynor; hand; henry; home; house; know; life; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; morgan; mother; mr morgan; mrs; night; prudence; room; steele; things; thought; time; want; wife; william; window; wortheton; young cache: 38171.txt plain text: 38171.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 38181 author: Marsh, Richard title: A Woman Perfected date: None words: 99335 flesch: 84 summary: He carried himself with less swagger than Herbert Nash; what was still more marked, he uncovered when he saw Miss Harding, showing all those signs of outward respect which a gentleman is supposed to show in the presence of a lady, but which Mr. Nash had entirely ignored; yet Miss Harding shrank back from Mr. Morgan as if he had been some noxious thing. He had made regular, and persistent, inquiries at Mr. Nash's office; but nothing had been heard of that promising solicitor by his staff, which consisted of a weedy youth of seventeen summers, with whom Mr. Morgan was on terms of the closest intimacy; until there came one morning a curtly worded request to forward any letters which might be awaiting him to Mr. Nash at an address which he gave. keywords: case; clifford; come; course; day; dear; door; elaine; face; father; gibb; girl; good; hand; harding; lady; let; lindsay; long; look; man; mind; miss; money; morgan; mother; nash; nora; oldfield; pounds; room; sir; things; thought; time; want; way; wife; wish; young cache: 38181.txt plain text: 38181.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 47739 author: Taggart, Marion Ames title: The Wyndham Girls date: None words: 73958 flesch: 80 summary: Whether she was glad or sorry, it was a lovely thing to have happen to a girl, and she hardly knew herself for little Phyllis in the new light it shed around her. I am the one to sing hymns of praise, dear little Phyllis, said Mrs. Wyndham, fondly. keywords: alan; alyn; aunt; bab; babbie; barbara; day; dear; doctor; dollars; door; eyes; face; friends; girls; good; hands; help; henrietta; home; hope; house; hurd; jessamy; left; little; look; love; man; miss; mother; mrs; new; nixie; people; phyllis; poor; pretty; right; room; ruth; things; thought; time; tom; van; want; way; work; world; wyndham cache: 47739.txt plain text: 47739.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 5119 author: Hornblow, Arthur title: The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life date: None words: 84026 flesch: 79 summary: Then presenting Jefferson to Stott, she said: This is Mr. Jefferson Ryder--Judge Stott. Your engagement to Mr. Jefferson Ryder is, to say the least, a most uncertain fact. keywords: bagley; book; burkett ryder; business; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; interests; jefferson; jefferson ryder; john; john ryder; judge; judge rossmore; kate; letters; life; like; love; man; matter; men; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; people; public; right; roberts; room; rossmore; ryder; secretary; senator; shirley; stott; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 5119.txt plain text: 5119.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 51565 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Major Barbara date: None words: 235 flesch: 37 summary: George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara Credits for Temi Rose Production of GB Shaw's Major Barbara Directed by Temi Rose CAST: Andrew Undershaft - Laurence Cantor Lady Britomart Undershaft - Lucy McMichael (Major) Barbara Undershaft - Rin Allen Stephen Undershaft - Jonathan Horvath Sarah Undershaft - Shariffa Wilson Adolphus Cusins - Paul Singleton Charles Lomax - Philip T. Casale Bronterre O'Brien Price - Jason Daniel Siegel Rummy (Romola) Jerusalem Year 2003 Scene 3.1 Andante from Italian Concerto BWV 971 - Bach Catrin Finch (harp) http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen Scene 3.5 Orfeo ed Euridice (excerpt) - Gluck Paula Robison (flute) Mariko Anraku (harp) http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen Scene 3.9 same Recorded December 22, 2011 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City. WEBSITE FOR THE PROJECT WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND LINKS http://www.2cyberwhelm.org/2011/shaw/barbara keywords: army; salvation; scene cache: 51565.txt plain text: 51565.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 53049 author: Burnham, Clara Louise title: Instead of the Thorn: A Novel date: None words: 70549 flesch: 89 summary: Is her niece--is Miss Linda Barry here? Miss Linda Barry gave Mr. King his tea. keywords: aunt; aurora; barry; belinda; bertram; blanche; care; child; day; dear; eyes; face; father; feel; fred; girl; good; hand; harriet; head; heart; home; house; king; linda; linda barry; lindsay; look; luella; madge; man; miss; miss barry; mrs; place; porter; right; room; rose; speaker; thing; thought; time; voice; way; whitcomb; white; young cache: 53049.txt plain text: 53049.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 54880 author: Merriman, Charles Eustace title: Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son date: None words: 46407 flesch: 82 summary: I think the hotel man stuck us on the damages, but the Club chipped in and paid like little men. He never even laughed when I told him that old man Philpot had the reputation of bribing the drivers of rural conveyances to lose a tire off a wheel when they were driving by his place with an eligible stranger as passenger. keywords: billy; boston; boy; business; car; chicago; course; day; dear; fact; father; fellow; girl; good; graham; helen; home; hotel; house; job; lard; letter; life; line; look; man; men; milligan; money; morning; mother; new; office; order; pierrepont; place; pork; pretty; right; saw; son; sort; story; tell; thing; thought; time; town; way; wife; work; york cache: 54880.txt plain text: 54880.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 5797 author: Kelland, Clarence Budington title: Youth Challenges date: None words: 103185 flesch: 89 summary: Mr. Bonbright Foote seems to be causing his family anxiety, he said. Mrs. Bonbright Foote. keywords: believe; bonbright; bonbright foote; boy; business; day; door; dulac; eyes; face; family; father; frazer; girl; good; hand; head; heart; hilda; home; labor; life; lightener; look; love; malcolm; man; men; mind; moment; mother; mrs; night; office; place; rangar; room; ruth; son; sort; strike; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; work; world cache: 5797.txt plain text: 5797.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 61246 author: Beresford, J. D. (John Davys) title: The Prisoners of Hartling date: None words: 70790 flesch: 85 summary: Only Miss Kenyon, Arthur thought, looked doubtful and uneasy. V Arthur saw very little of Eleanor and old Mr Kenyon in the course of the next few days. keywords: arthur; case; course; day; eleanor; family; good; hartling; house; hubert; joe; kenyon; life; little; man; mean; mind; miss; moment; morning; new; room; somers; sort; stay; thing; thought; time; turner; uncle; want; way; years cache: 61246.txt plain text: 61246.txt