U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [11]
VICE PRESIDENT EMPTIES A BANK
Come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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It is the best
brother of Jesse James declares play picturing him as bandit trainrobber and outlaw is demoralizing district battle ends with polygamy, according to an investigation by Salt Lake ministers, stil practiced by Mormons clubwomen gasp It is the best band in the land
say circus animals only cat Chicago horsemeat Taxsale of Indiana lots marks finale of World's Fair boom uses flag as ragbag kil ed on cannibal isle keeper fal s into water and sea-lions attack him. The launch then came alongside the half deflated bal oon of the aerostat which threatened at any moment to smother Santos Dumont. The latter was half pul ed and half clam-bered over the gunwale into the boat. The prince of Monaco urged him to al ow himself to be taken on board the yacht to dry himself and change his clothes. Santos Dumont would not leave the launch until everything that could be saved had been taken ashore, then, wet but smiling and unconcerned, he landed amid the frenzied cheers of the crowd.
THE CAMERA EYE (3)
0 qu'il a des beaux yeux said the lady in the seat
opposite but She said that was no way to talk to children and the little boy felt al hot and sticky but it was dusk and the lamp shaped like half a melon was coming on dim red and the train rumbled and suddenly I've been asleep and it's black dark and the blue tassel bobs on the edge of the dark shade shaped like a melon and every--24-where there are pointed curved shadows (the first time He came He brought a melon and the sun was coming in through the tal lace windowcurtains and when we cut it the smel of melons fil ed the whole room) No don't eat the seeds deary they give you appendicitis but you're peeking out of the window into the black rumbling dark suddenly ranked with squat chimneys and you're scared of the black smoke and the puffs of flame that flare and fade out of the squat chimneys Potteries dearie. they work there al night Who works there al night? Workingmen and people like that laborers travail-leurs greasers you were scared
but now the dark was al black again the lamp in the train and the sky and everything had a blueblack shade on it and She was tel ing a story about
Longago Beforetheworldsfair Beforeyouwereborn and they went to Mexico on a private car on the new interna-tional line and the men shot antelope off the back of the train and big rabbits jackasses they cal ed them and once one night Longago Beforetheworldsfair Beforeyouwereborn one night Mother was so frightened on account of al the rifleshots but it was al right turned out to be nothing but a little shooting they'd been only shooting a greaser that was al
that was in the early days
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Debs was a railroad man, born in a weather-boarded shack at Terre Haute. He was one of ten children.
His father had come to America in a sailingship
in '49,
an Alsatian from Colmar; not much of a money-maker, fond of music and reading, he gave his children a chance to finish public
school and that was about al he could do.
At fifteen Gene Debs was already working as a
machinist on the Indianapolis and Terre Haute Rail-way. He worked as locomotive fireman,
clerked in a store
joined the local of the Brotherhood of Locomo-tive Firemen, was elected secretary, traveled al over the' country as organizer.
He was a tal shamblefooted man, had a sort of
gusty rhetoric that set on fire the railroad workers in their pineboarded hal s made them want the world he wanted,
a world brothers might own
where everybody would split even:
I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to fol- low me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you