item: #1 of 5 id: 12345 author: Lawson, Thomas William title: Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel date: None words: 48540 flesch: 80 summary: Bob Brownley, when himself, was as fond of his baby brother, as he called him, as his beautiful Southern mother was of both; but when the devil had possession of Bob--and his option during the past five years had been exercised many a time--mother and brother had to take their place with all the rest of the world, for then Bob knew no kindred, no friends. This girl who came into our office that July Saturday, just in time to interfere with the outing Bob Brownley and I had laid out, and who was destined to divert my chum's heretofore smooth-flowing river of existence and turn it into an alternation of roaring rushes and deadly calms, was truly the most exquisite creature one could conceive of, I know my thought must have been Bob's too, for his eyes were riveted on her face. keywords: barry; beulah; beulah sands; bob; bob brownley; business; conant; crowd; day; exchange; eyes; face; father; floor; gambling; god; good; head; heart; jim; know; man; men; millions; minutes; money; new; office; people; randolph; reinhart; sands; shares; stock; street; sugar; system; think; thought; time; wall; way; world cache: 12345.txt plain text: 12345.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 61498 author: Jameson, Malcolm title: If You're Smart— date: None words: 5182 flesch: 82 summary: That hoary wisecrack must have been all of three centuries old when Wolf Carmichael pulled it on Dr. Claud Kellog. Doc Kellog knew all that and knew how hopeless his fight was. keywords: carmichael; kellog; money; neville; power; stock; titan; wade; wolf cache: 61498.txt plain text: 61498.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 636 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 date: None words: 97738 flesch: 67 summary: The undoubted relics of great men, or great events, will always possess attractions for the thinking and refined. During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. keywords: bank; body; capital; cause; cent; combat; company; country; course; court; credit; day; days; death; directors; duel; duelling; duke; end; england; english; europe; evil; favour; fire; following; france; general; good; government; great; guilty; hair; half; hands; head; henry; honour; house; john; justice; king; law; left; life; livres; london; long; lord; making; man; manner; means; men; millions; money; murder; nation; new; night; order; parliament; people; persons; place; pounds; present; prices; public; regent; royal; sea; second; set; sir; south; state; stock; subject; thought; thugs; time; trade; world; years cache: 636.txt plain text: 636.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 713 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 date: None words: 100522 flesch: 65 summary: The boy added, that as soon as supper was ready, many other witches came to partake of it, several of whom he named. Whether the horse-shoe still remains upon the door of the haunted house, to keep away other witches, is uncertain; but there it was, twelve or thirteen years ago. keywords: age; aid; army; body; cause; children; christians; church; city; clergy; country; crime; cross; crusaders; day; days; death; devil; duke; emperor; enemy; england; europe; evidence; france; general; germany; god; good; hand; head; hermit; history; holy; house; james; jerusalem; king; knights; leaders; life; like; lord; louis; man; means; men; mind; new; night; number; order; palestine; parliament; people; persons; peter; place; pope; popular; possession; power; richard; saw; set; sir; sultan; thought; time; trial; turks; war; way; witchcraft; witches; women; work; world; years cache: 713.txt plain text: 713.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 884 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 date: None words: 99964 flesch: 65 summary: They asserted, on the contrary, that the first vow they took on entering the society was a vow of chastity; and that any one among them who transgressed in that particular would immediately lose all the advantages he enjoyed, and be exposed once more to hunger, woe, disease, and death, like other men. This work was published in two volumes, and the authenticity of its details supported by Gorres, Eschenmeyer, and other men of character and reputation in Germany: it is said to have had an immense sale. keywords: age; alchymist; alchymy; animal; art; body; book; cagliostro; city; count; country; cure; day; days; death; dee; effects; elixir; england; europe; experiments; eyes; fluid; following; fortune; france; friend; general; germany; gold; good; hand; house; imagination; influence; iron; king; lead; left; life; madame; magnetic; magnetism; man; manner; master; means; men; metals; mind; money; number; opinion; paris; people; persons; philosopher; physician; place; power; present; science; secret; silver; spirits; state; stone; study; subject; thought; time; water; work; world; years; young cache: 884.txt plain text: 884.txt