item: #1 of 10 id: 26890 author: Keller, David H. (David Henry) title: The Rat Racket date: None words: 7262 flesch: 86 summary: I can put you in a grocery warehouse and guarantee that inside of a week you will see more rats than you ever dreamed of. When it came to rats, it was different. keywords: big; boys; building; business; check; city; course; crawford; day; different; doubt; elevator; end; fact; floor; gangsters; gentlemen; good; half; hotel; large; letter; life; little; man; meeting; men; moyer; new; night; old; people; perkins; piper; professor; racket; racketeers; rastell; rats; room; small; story; sure; time; town; tune; use; way; week; willowby; wilson; winifred; worth; years; york cache: 26890.txt plain text: 26890.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 32562 author: Sholto, Ralph title: "And That's How It Was, Officer" date: None words: 11674 flesch: 92 summary: Uncle Peter checked him off and Bag Ears said, Jeeps! tomorrow every juke box in town can play 'Nearer my God to Thee.' I'm sure, Bag Ears, Joy said, that Tessie would sympathize with our efforts to keep Uncle Peter out of the electric chair. keywords: assistant; aunt; bag; bag ears; barkeep; bells; blonde; bottle; boy; bride; buffet; car; cement; city; cora; course; darling; deal; dear; door; doubt; drink; ears; eyes; face; fact; fast; friends; girl; good; great; gretchen; gun; guy; hands; head; homer; honeymoon; house; joy; lady; law; left; like; lips; little; long; look; man; mccaffery; mean; mind; mixer; mob; moment; mulligan; murder; nicholas; nose; officer; old; people; peter; place; point; police; pop; pretty; reception; red; right; roadster; room; serum; sort; standing; street; sure; tavern; tessie; things; tibet; time; town; tsk; turn; uncle; uncle peter; way; wedding; wonderful; words; zinsky cache: 32562.txt plain text: 32562.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 34591 author: Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) title: Clue of the Silken Ladder date: None words: 39681 flesch: 88 summary: Mrs. Weems never would have telephoned if something unusual hadn't happened, Penny declared uneasily. Penny and I were nearly ready to start home in any case, Mrs. Weems. keywords: afraid; afternoon; al gepper; ance; answer; apartment; arm; attention; bed; belfry; bell; beneath; best; black; box; building; burglary; cabinet; car; care; cars; celestial; certain; chair; chapter; chum; city; corner; cottage; coupe; course; cousin; curio; cut; dad; dark; daughter; david; days; desk; dewitt; dollars; door; editor; entire; entrance; envelope; evidence; extra; eyes; face; far; father; floor; friend; gaze; gepper; ghost; girl; glance; going; good; great; guess; hand; hard; head; help; henley; high; hodges; home; hope; hour; housekeeper; information; inheritance; inside; interest; japanese; jerry; job; kano; key; kitchen; kohl; ladder; large; later; ledge; left; lena; letter; lights; like; little; locked; long; look; lot; louise; maid; man; matter; maud; medium; meeting; message; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; mrs; new; number; o'clock; office; old; open; page; paper; parker; past; pay; penny; persons; pete; picture; place; police; policeman; porch; psychic; public; publisher; purpose; questions; read; reporter; right; riverview; room; rope; run; seamstress; shop; short; sign; silk; silken; slippery; small; society; speak; spirit; star; story; street; sure; table; telephone; temple; theatre; thing; thought; time; today; tomorrow; tonight; tower; trouble; turning; voice; wall; way; weems; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 34591.txt plain text: 34591.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 34592 author: Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) title: Behind the Green Door date: None words: 44097 flesch: 90 summary: Penny inquired. Penny inquired. keywords: able; actress; afraid; ankle; answer; arm; attention; bad; balantine; barbed; bed; best; better; big; bob; boy; brake; building; business; cabin; card; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; clerk; close; coat; cold; corridor; course; curve; dad; dark; day; days; deal; deep; desk; door; doubt; downey; elevator; end; evidence; eyes; face; far; fast; father; feet; fence; fergus; fergus hotel; floor; francine; fur; girl; glanced; good; grandfather; great; green; guard; guests; half; hall; hand; hard; harvey; head; help; high; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; idea; important; inside; instant; interest; jake; jasko; key; kitchen; know; large; later; leave; left; like; line; little; lobby; lodge; long; look; louise; low; machine; maid; man; matter; maxine; maxwell; mean; men; message; miller; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mountain; mrs; mystery; need; new; newspaper; nice; office; old; open; outside; paper; parker; passengers; past; penny; persons; peter; pine; place; question; quick; ralph; reason; record; reporter; right; riverview; road; room; run; running; sara; save; second; service; sheriff; shot; sign; skiing; skis; sled; slopes; small; smile; snow; sorry; sound; speed; star; stay; step; story; strange; suit; sure; talk; teletype; think; thought; time; tomorrow; track; trail; trip; trouble; turn; village; voice; waiting; walk; wall; watch; way; window; wire; woman; wonder; words; work; wrong; year cache: 34592.txt plain text: 34592.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 3475 author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice title: The Efficiency Expert date: None words: 50699 flesch: 83 summary: Jimmy Torrance was out of a job a week this time, and once more he was indebted to the Lizard for a position, the latter knowing a politician who was heavily interested in a dairy company, with the result that Jimmy presently found himself driving a milk-wagon. At ten o'clock Monday Jimmy was at Young Brophy's training quarters, for, although he had not forgotten Harriet Holden's invitation, he had never seriously considered availing himself of her offer to help him to a better position. keywords: afraid; afternoon; appearance; arm; assistant; attention; attorney; bad; bed; best; better; big; bince; body; book; boy; breakfast; brophy; business; buyer; car; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; city; class; clerk; close; clothes; college; come; coming; company; compton; condition; continued; corner; course; court; david; day; days; deal; death; department; desk; different; dinner; dollars; door; dozen; drive; early; edith; efficiency; elizabeth; elizabeth compton; eva; evening; everett; evidence; experience; expert; expression; eyes; face; fact; far; father; feinheimer; fellow; figure; floor; following; friend; general; gentleman; girl; glad; good; great; guy; half; hand; hard; harm; harold; harriet; head; hell; help; holden; home; hope; hosiery; hour; hudson; idea; international; jimmy; jimmy torrance; job; kind; know; knowledge; krovac; large; later; left; let; letters; life; line; lips; little; lizard; long; longer; look; lot; love; machine; making; man; manager; matter; mean; men; mighty; milk; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; month; morning; murray; muttered; necessary; need; nervous; new; newspaper; nice; night; note; nurse; o'clock; o'donnell; office; open; order; papers; particular; past; pay; people; person; pistol; place; plant; pocket; point; police; position; possible; presence; present; pretty; reason; regular; reply; report; result; return; roll; room; run; safe; second; self; shop; small; smile; sorry; sort; start; steve; straight; street; sure; system; table; talk; telephone; thing; thought; time; torrance; town; use; view; voice; wagon; waiter; want; watch; way; week; wish; witness; women; words; work; worked; world; worse; wrong; years; young cache: 3475.txt plain text: 3475.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 43263 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: The Arrow of Fire A Mystery Story for Boys date: None words: 45972 flesch: 96 summary: A Marked Man 120 XIV Johnny Scores a Knockdown 128 XV Johnny Finds a Man 137 XVI In his three years of wandering Johnny had known mystery, romance, and adventure aplenty. keywords: affair; arm; arrow; asleep; attention; away; bad; barn; beat; bed; best; better; big; bit; black; blood; blue; booths; bow; box; boy; boys; break; broad; bullets; business; calls; car; card; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; chief; city; clang; close; clothes; club; coffee; college; companion; corner; cottage; country; course; court; crime; crook; curious; cut; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deep; detective; dollars; door; doubt; dress; drew; drop; duty; end; escape; eyes; face; far; fast; father; feet; fellow; fine; fire; floor; foot; force; form; fresh; friend; game; gang; gangster; girl; glass; gong; good; grand; great; guess; guilty; gun; guns; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; help; herman; high; hole; home; honor; hour; house; howe; hunting; instant; interest; italian; jail; jimmie; johnny; joyce; judge; lane; large; later; law; leave; left; life; like; likely; lips; little; long; look; looking; low; man; manner; mask; matter; mccarthey; mcgowan; men; mike; mills; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; murder; need; newton; night; note; number; officer; old; ones; open; operator; package; people; person; pickpockets; pigeons; place; pocket; police; prisoners; professional; purpose; purse; queer; question; quick; quiet; radio; ramacciotti; real; red; rest; robbers; room; rosy; safe; saw; seat; second; sergeant; service; set; shack; shadows; shooting; shot; silence; silent; slip; small; smile; sort; sound; spot; sprang; squad; stairs; station; stool; store; straight; strange; street; studio; sudden; sure; table; telephone; tell; thing; thinking; thompson; thought; time; tone; town; true; truth; voice; wall; way; white; witness; wonder; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 43263.txt plain text: 43263.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 45174 author: Wayne, Dorothy title: Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings date: None words: 38138 flesch: 92 summary: Now, as nobody has been polite enough to introduce me to the heroine of this meeting--I'm the hero's fond parent, Miss Dorothy. The Packard's there, just as I told you, Miss Dorothy, volunteered Lizzie as the three stepped inside the garage. keywords: afraid; afternoon; aileron; air; airplane; amphibian; arm; bad; bag; bank; beach; better; big; bill; bit; black; boat; bolton; book; break; bus; business; cabin; canaan; car; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; chauffeur; closed; club; cockpit; controls; couple; course; crash; cut; dad; daddy; dark; darkness; daughter; day; dear; direction; dixon; doctor; door; doorway; dorothy; drive; edge; engine; evening; eyes; face; far; father; feel; feet; field; figure; flight; flying; foot; forward; frank; friend; gang; garage; girl; glad; glance; going; good; great; ground; gun; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; helmet; help; high; hill; hold; home; hop; hour; house; idea; instruction; island; job; johnny; key; kid; kind; lady; lake; lame; landings; left; leg; level; life; lights; like; little; lizzie; long; look; lot; low; main; man; martinelli; matter; mean; mike; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mouth; narrow; near; necessary; need; new; nose; o.k; old; open; order; packard; perkins; phone; pilot; plane; point; police; pretty; pull; quiet; real; red; rest; right; road; robbery; room; rudder; run; running; sadie; scud; sea; seat; second; set; shot; shoulder; shut; sir; sister; small; sorry; sound; speed; sprang; stand; start; stick; stop; storm; straight; street; strong; sure; table; talk; teeth; thanks; thing; thompson; thought; time; tone; tonight; tony; trail; training; trouble; turn; voice; water; way; white; wild; wind; wing; woman; work; wrong; yer; young cache: 45174.txt plain text: 45174.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 45417 author: Wayne, Dorothy title: Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case date: None words: 40716 flesch: 95 summary: At last Dorothy put her comb away, turned to George and broke the silence. Golly, but dey sure is hungry! Miss Dorothy done sol' dat motah fo' two million dollars. keywords: 'bout; abe; answer; arm; bad; bed; best; better; betty; big; bill; bit; black; boards; bolton; book; boy; business; cabin; car; catch; chair; chapter; chimney; clear; cliffs; climb; close; clothes; coffee; come; conway; couple; course; cross; darkness; darky; dat; day; den; dere; dese; dey; dining; direction; dis; dixon; door; doorway; dorothy; drive; dry; eat; eddie; edge; eyes; face; far; father; feel; feet; fellow; fine; fire; flash; floor; foot; friend; game; gang; garage; gas; gentleman; george; girl; git; going; gone; good; goodness; guess; gun; gwine; half; hall; hand; hard; head; hear; heavy; help; high; hill; hold; home; hot; house; hurried; hyar; i'se; idea; jes; johnson; joyce; kind; kitchen; know; lady; land; lay; left; lewis; library; like; line; little; liza; long; longer; look; lot; low; ma'am; man; marse; matter; mean; men; michaels; mind; minute; missy; moment; money; morning; motor; mouth; mrs; near; need; new; nigger; ol'; old; open; orchard; outside; pair; path; people; person; phone; place; plans; possible; pretty; pull; question; quick; rain; raven; rear; reply; reservation; rest; revolver; ridge; right; river; road; rock; room; rope; round; run; running; second; set; sho; short; sleep; slicker; small; start; state; stoker; stop; storm; suh; supper; sure; swung; table; talk; terry; thanks; thing; thought; time; tins; tone; tonight; torch; trail; tree; trouble; uncle; uncle abe; valley; voice; walk; wall; want; warm; water; way; wet; white; wide; window; woodlot; woods; word; work; wuz; yaas; yo'all; yonder; young cache: 45417.txt plain text: 45417.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 60886 author: Jacobs, Sylvia title: Time Payment date: None words: 5140 flesch: 86 summary: If Slick Tennant says it's a time-travel machine, that's what you call it, see? Yes, I see, Dr. Porter said faintly. * * Letting go of the boy, Slick dealt Dr. Porter a vicious slap. keywords: awareness; blank; blow; boy; car; city; conditioning; course; dickie; doctor; dream; father; field; fore; future; gardens; guys; hand; help; home; human; kid; kind; level; little; long; machine; man; memories; mind; old; people; plenty; porter; recidivist; right; slick; sure; tennant; things; thought; time; travel; way; years; young cache: 60886.txt plain text: 60886.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 61171 author: Harmon, Jim title: The Expendables date: None words: 5356 flesch: 83 summary: Really, Mr. Carmen, I said, this isn't the sort of thing you discuss with a total stranger. Tony Carmen held his pinkly manicured, flashily ringed hands wide. keywords: aec; american; arcivox; bodies; boys; brown; business; carmen; chair; course; days; device; disposal; door; earth; energy; expendable; feel; field; future; good; government; heat; hot; information; invention; kind; long; machine; mafia; man; mass; matter; new; old; operation; people; power; problem; professor; public; racketeer; radioactive; right; set; small; stock; stuff; sure; system; temperature; things; time; tony; use; venetti; waste; water; way; work; years; young cache: 61171.txt plain text: 61171.txt