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I thought he might show up at the studio in a day or so, to submit some get-rich-quick fake to me. But he didn't. A couple of weeks goes by. Still no Uncle Jimmy. I was beginnin' to look for accounts in the papers of how an old jay from the coast of Maine had been bunkoed and gone to the police with his tale of woe; but nothin' of the kind appears. They don't always squeal, you know.
And to think that I thought I was following Philip's advice, and did not realize what he really meant until I read a story about a man who was called 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. Now I'd rather die than tell him that I have lost practically all of my worldly goods!" Finally, late in May, is an entry, longer than any of its predecessors, and the last for many a day.
Only find them, and 'get-rich-quick' would be the order of the day for every true adventurer. These mountains moved about in men's imaginations and on prospectors' maps, always ahead of the latest pioneer, somewhere behind the Back of Beyond. They and their glamour died hard. Even that staid geographer of a later day, Thos.
"Pretty decorations, Ray," said Richard; but he grew very red. "Do you know what you'll do," asked Ray, regarding him keenly, "if this Don Giovanni from Sunny It' is shown up as a plain get-rich-quick swindler?" "I haven't considered " "You would do precisely," said Ray, "nothing! Cora'd see to that.
All the cheap devices of a faker with a confederate in London to send a cablegram and another in New York to send a threatening letter." Kennedy extended an accusing forefinger at the man cowering before him. "This is nothing but a get-rich-quick scheme, Denison.
But late that evening, after the crowd had gone home and the proceeds of the entertainment were counted, the club discovered to their joy that they were nearly six hundred dollars richer. Arline had laughingly proclaimed the Semper Fidelis Club as a regular get-rich-quick organization with honest motives.
"Your friend Solomon called the turn on the get-rich-quick stuff. 'He that maketh haste' what's the rest of it, old-timer?" "'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent," quoted Old Man Curry, rolling out the syllables in sonorous procession. "But I reckon not being rich is worrying you more than not being innocent. Who took the roll away from you?"
But the smug luster of his face was faded and his kindly black eyes had an unsteady glance in them that belied his vivacity. I could see at once that he felt nothing but hate for me "Hello, Get-Rich-Quick Levinsky!" he greeted me. "Haven't seen you for an age." "How are you, Loeb?" I asked, genially, my heart full of mixed triumph and compassion
They are eager to face the risks inherent in our system of free enterprise. They do not want a postwar America which suffers from undernourishment or slums or the dole. They want no get-rich-quick era of bogus "prosperity" which will end for them in selling apples on a street corner, as happened after the bursting of the boom in 1929.
One of these is an Irishman who makes a specialty of get-rich-quick men, oil and mining stock operators, wire-tappers and their kin, and who knows the antecedents and history of most of them better than any other man in the country. He is ready to take the part of either a "sucker" or a fellow crook, as the exigencies of the case may demand.
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