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The doctor paused, and Mat thought he saw a reason for Scotch grit. He contrasted such a history with the get-rich-quick methods of California! "America," continued the doctor, "is the land of opportunity. With good health and industry the poor man can succeed." And he looked at Mat significantly. The Golden Summer Comes Again The golden summer had come again.
Father has placed the whole business in his hands; he has so much confidence in him. He gave him an option on the ranch property and Reggie hopes to dispose of it for enough to bring back our lost fortune to us. Isn't it wonderful?" "It certainly is," he agreed. "The discovery of oil is the only get-rich-quick proposition that is above reproach.
GRIGGS: Well, I presume because they are posing to be disinterested. When they take away such big returns we set them down as hypocrites. BRIGGS: But they have a right to make a living. GRIGGS: You might say that of any one else any get-rich-quick chap, for example, provided he can get away with it. BRIGGS: But the get-rich-quick man is cheating his customers.
I came across a man whom I used to see at the Tevkins', and one of the things he told me was that Anna had recently married a high-school teacher THE real estate boom collapsed. The cause of the catastrophe lay in the nature, or rather in the unnaturalness, of the "get-rich-quick" epidemic.
Had some get-rich-quick shark got hold of her; it was extremely likely. He could not shake the thought of her from his mind, her voice, her pretty, sullen little face, rose again and haunted him. What a child she had been, and what a boy he was, and how mistaken the whole bitter experience! Walking home late at night, the memory of old days rode him like a hateful nightmare.
It's a fifty-to-one shot. Tools are lost, the casin' collapses, the cable breaks, money gives out, shootin' is badly done, water filters in, or oil ain't there in payin' quantities. In a coupla years you can buy a deskful of no-good stock for a dollar Mex." "Then why is everybody in it?" "We've all been bit by this get-rich-quick bug.
And even when that was exposed Sam's continued to be the headquarters of all the get-rich-quick schemes of the day. Thus in one issue of a newspaper of 1720 there were two announcements specially designed to catch the unwary.
If they undertake to make a get-rich-quick scheme of it I'll knock the whole business in the head. I'm not overly anxious to get into it with them. But it promises action of some sort and I have to do something till spring." In the spring! That brief phrase set Hazel to sober thinking. With April or May Bill would spread his wings for the North.
With peace, the plume again became the thing and the drooping industry expanded with get-rich-quick proportions. Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony is the center of the ostrich feather trade. It is the only place in the world, I believe, devoted entirely to plumage. Not long before I arrived in South Africa £85,000 of feathers were disposed of there in three days.
It was seized upon and applauded in Europe as a good new name for an old condition, observed particularly in Americans abroad to rest from the fatigues of the get-rich-quick games of industrial speculators. In fact, the name of the American Disease was given to it.
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