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Hamilton could not have been stupid enough to pay hush money for sex, Callender alleged, so the money paid to James Reynolds had to involve illicit speculation.

Rainsford also credited Pierpont with intense loyalty and forthright honesty:

Buoyed by these dividends, the price of Standard Oil shares leaped from 176 in 1896 to a high of 458 three years later.

This is abundantly borne out by Rockefeller's private papers, which show that the practice was even more pervasive than Tarbell realized.

Whether unnerved by the episode or upset at having paid the unnecessary premium, Rockefeller went home ill that afternoon.

although she never guessed the depths of corruption revealed by Rockefeller's papers.

Seldom has history produced such a contradictory figure.

From the outset, Pierpont's relationship with Jack differed from his own with Junius.

a face so broad and ruddy that he was dubbed "Bacon Face.

Sam had laced nearly everything in the paper with his screwball wit—proposing in one news item that a newly enacted whiskey tax made it a patriotic duty to drink.)

The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks

As one scholar put it, "No one has made more impact on the translation of the Bible into English than William Tyndale.

Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph

AN EARLY FOUNDATION of Lincoln's ability to speak was laid in his reading of William Scott's Lessons in Elocution.

In Hudson, John Brown would assert his indictment of slavery to anybody who would listen. Jesse listened.

Oh, she's getting sinister and passee. Perhaps; but only sometimes!

But if they had meant to murder me, the camel-lady was mysteriously murmuring to Monsignor Parr, they would not have put chocolate in the luncheon-basket; my courage returned to me at that!

Something between a butterfly and a misanthrope, he was temperamental, when not otherwise...employed.

At which vision, of continual middle age, the younger Miss Flowerman fainted.

And the Dean smiled sheepishly and tried to look less like a wolf. It was a favorite expression of his when addressing youth.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.

I'm a gooey, gushy gumdrop bullshitty drop bombs on Russia! ride a horse ...

A little less detente with the Politbureau and more encouragement to the dissenters might be worth a lot of armored divisions.