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"Why, Colonel Ashley is one of the greatest detectives in the United States at least, he used to be. He must be pretty old now." "I know he is but not too old to take hold. Now when he comes " "But, Amy, my dear! You can't get him! Why, he's not only one of the highest-priced detectives in the country, but he's retired I've read, and I doubt if he'd take a case "
At 8:30 Central U. S. Time, on a period relinquished by other advertisers bought out a new program went on the air. It was a half-hour show, sponsored by the Intercity Credit Corporation "Buy on Credit Guaranteed" with ten straight minutes of commercials interjected in four sections. It was the highest-priced show ever put on the air.
You would never see one of the O'Cleave family at a roadside camp fire such as that where Maw fries the trout and Rowena toasts the bread on a fork. The original O'Cleave came over in the Mayflower, as I am informed but, without question in my mind, came steerage. You will find Mr. O'Cleave in the swellest hotel, in the highest-priced room.
One of these diets can be followed if the will-power is there, and the flesh will come off; but the method does not conduce to the best results the physical force is reduced, and there is a much easier way. I have one of these diet lists before me now from the highest-priced flesh-reducing specialist in the world, who claims to have taken mountains of flesh off mountainous men.
He and his portly wife planted themselves, like two canons of the sanctuary, every Sunday, in the tip-top highest-priced pew of the most orthodox old church in New York; and if the worthy man sometimes indulged in gentle slumbers in the high-padded walls of his slip, it was because he was so well assured of the orthodoxy of his minister that he felt that no interest of society would suffer while he was off duty.
He has never taken pupils, but has confined himself to concert playing only, and he has been called the highest-priced player in Germany, where it was said that he received three thousand marks for a concert, while even Joachim received only one thousand.
And because he had an instinctive dislike for anything but the best obtainable, he had bought the highest-priced glasses he could find in San Francisco, and perhaps the smallest. He buckled them back into their case, slapped them into his pocket and closed the trunk lid with a bang.
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