The Americanization of Edward Bok potx

... lift, put them late at night on the front platform of the street-cars, and take them to the postoffice. Thus the boys absolutely knew the growth of their circulation by the weight of their bundles ... gratuitously to the aid of the editor. At first, the circulation of the magazine permitted the boys to wrap the copies themselves; and then they, with two other...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... they were all fathers, and two of the sturdiest turned and walked to the window as they said: "Yes, that is fine!" Then came the boy's pleasure when he was handed the letter; the ... month the two men worked each at his own task. To throw the public off the scent, during the conduct of the department, an article or two by Colonel Roosevelt was published...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... understand the genius and the kindliness of the son. For the sake of the public's knowledge, it is a distinct loss that there is not a better understanding of the real sweetness of character of the ... guarded it, than the editors of the newspapers of America. Among no other set of professional men is the code of honor so high; and woe betide the j...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... in the gowns of the declasse street-women of Paris. The somewhat sensational nature of the articles attracted the attention of the American newspapers, which copied and commented on them; the ... by the gross, and sold in bundles to the retailers. Bok secured a list of the buyers of these labels and found that they represented some of the leading merchant...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... restricting the use of the water of Niagara Falls. The matter was then referred to the secretary of war, William Howard Taft, to grant the use of such volume of water as would preserve the beauty of the ... in the city; they considered themselves good citizens if they kept their own places sightly, but the idea of devoting their evenings to the problems of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... mean for them, but because they were themselves not in favor of the new mode. They had little sympathy for the elimination of the graceful dance by the introduction of what they called the "shuffle" ... and the result was that the succession of ships leaving the port of Philadelphia was a credit to the generosity of the people of the city and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... co-operation of the Federal Bureau of Americanization, the material was assembled and worked up with the result that, in the opinion of the director of the Federal Bureau, the series proved to be the ... published, and the clarity of vision shown in the selection of the subjects, gave a fresh impetus to the circulation of the magazine; and now that th...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 00:15

... gratification difficult of expression. End of Project Gutenberg's The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok from http://manybooks.net/ The Legal Small Print ... matter. I heard mothers tell their little children that if they did not behave themselves, the policeman would put them into a bag and carry them off, or cut...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... birds. So grateful were the birds for their resting-place that they chose one end of the island as a special spot for the laying of their eggs and the raising of their young, and they fairly peopled ... a bower of verdure, a home for the birds and the song of the nightingale. The grandchildren have gone to the four corners of the globe, and are now the genera...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20

... picture. At the office of the cigarette company he learned that the making of the pictures was in the hands of the The Legal Small Print 18 when President Hayes began to speak! Edward worked hard, but the ... hostess were the President of the United States and the first lady of the land! That evening was the first of many thus spent as the years rolled...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20