item: #1 of 6 id: 14532 author: Ford, Paul Leicester title: The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him date: None words: 157120 flesch: 89 summary: So this is the office of the great Peter Stirling? she said, with the nicest tone of interest in her voice, as it seemed to Peter. But now his moral character is sadly on the wane, 'Tis little Peter Stirling, bilin' drunk again. keywords: away; business; case; city; course; d'alloi; day; dear; dennis; dinner; door; dorothy; evening; eyes; face; friends; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; help; kind; law; leonore; life; lispenard; long; look; love; maguire; man; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; need; new; office; papers; party; people; peter; peter stirling; pierce; place; politics; read; right; room; rose; saw; society; speech; talk; things; thought; till; time; try; voe; voice; want; ward; watts; way; wish; woman; work; years; york cache: 14532.txt plain text: 14532.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 2908 author: Galsworthy, John title: Strife: A Drama in Three Acts date: None words: 23580 flesch: 97 summary: [Moving to the double-doors, and listening.] Do you know that man Roberts, Frost? FROST. My father's getting an old man, and you know what old men are. keywords: anthony; edgar; enid; harness; madge; man; men; mrs; roberts; rous; scantlebury; sir; tench; thomas; underwood; wanklin; wilder cache: 2908.txt plain text: 2908.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 31108 author: Hunter, Robert title: Violence and the Labor Movement date: None words: 117933 flesch: 61 summary: [_i. e._, his opponents] have substituted the dogmatic spirit for the critical, the idealistic interpretation of events for the materialistic. In Carlyle's Hero Worship and in his philosophy of history, the progress of the world is summarized under the stories of great men. keywords: action; acts; america; anarchists; anarchy; bakounin; bismarck; case; class; classes; conditions; congress; countries; country; course; day; democracy; detectives; end; engels; europe; fact; force; france; french; general; germany; government; history; ideas; idem; international; labor; labor movement; law; life; london; marx; means; men; methods; movement; new; order; organization; paris; party; people; period; place; police; power; present; principles; program; property; public; question; result; revolution; secret; socialist; society; state; strike; struggle; syndicalism; time; trade; union; united; violence; war; workers; working; world; years cache: 31108.txt plain text: 31108.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 3608 author: Tressell, Robert title: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists date: None words: 257025 flesch: 78 summary: From other men he had succeeded in obtaining nine and sixpence, mostly in sixpences and threepences. These sub-foremen or 'coddies' knew that if they 'made their jobs pay' they would be put in charge of others and be kept on in preference to other men as long as the firm had any work; so they helped Misery to scheme and scamp the work and watched and drove the men under their charge; and these latter poor wretches, knowing that their only chance of retaining their employment was to 'tear into it', tore into it like so many maniacs. keywords: ave; barrington; bert; bloody; boy; business; cause; children; course; crass; crowd; day; didlum; door; drunk; easton; end; ere; face; fact; fire; floor; frankie; good; great; grinder; half; hands; harlow; head; home; hour; house; hunter; job; kind; know; labour; left; life; linden; look; lot; man; matter; meeting; men; mind; minutes; misery; money; morning; new; number; o'clock; order; owen; paint; paper; past; pay; people; philpot; place; poor; poverty; present; right; room; round; rushton; ruth; sawkins; semi; shillings; shop; slyme; state; sweater; system; table; tea; tell; things; think; thought; time; town; wages; want; way; week; white; window; work; working; wot; years; | | cache: 3608.txt plain text: 3608.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 36243 author: Machar, Agnes Maule title: Roland Graeme: Knight. A Novel of Our Time date: None words: 85883 flesch: 76 summary: The editor of it, Mr. Roland Graeme, is well known to me; in fact, I have the honor of having him at present in my office, and I can answer for him that he would be delighted to accept any contributions from your pen. And with him came in, to Nora's amused surprise, Mr. Roland Graeme. keywords: alden; blanchard; child; children; chillingworth; course; day; door; evening; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; graeme; heart; help; home; hope; interest; kitty; labor; lecture; life; lizzie; looking; love; man; men; mind; miss; miss blanchard; mother; mrs; new; night; nora; people; pomeroy; poor; read; roland; room; talk; things; thought; time; waldberg; way; words; work; young cache: 36243.txt plain text: 36243.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 8374 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography date: None words: 192588 flesch: 77 summary: All men, worth anything, old men especially, have strong fits of optimism--even Carlyle has--because they can't help hoping, and sometimes feeling, that the world is going right, and will go right, not your way, or my way, but its own way. He was a great man, but his method of compromise, though useful enough in particular cases when employed by a great man, becomes a most dastardly _schema mundi_ when taken up by a school of little men. keywords: 'em; answer; body; book; boy; care; cause; chance; chapter; children; church; class; classes; clothes; common; country; course; cousin; crossthwaite; dark; day; days; dead; dean; dear; door; earth; end; england; eyes; face; fact; fancy; father; fear; fellow; find; fire; fresh; gentlemen; god; going; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; help; history; home; hope; house; human; labour; law; leave; left; let; life; like; lillian; london; long; look; lord; love; mackaye; making; man; matter; means; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; nature; new; pay; people; place; point; poor; power; public; question; read; rest; right; room; round; saw; self; sense; set; shop; society; soul; spirit; street; system; thing; thought; time; trade; true; truth; turn; voice; wages; want; water; way; week; wish; words; work; working; workmen; world; write; years; young cache: 8374.txt plain text: 8374.txt