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  Atkey (1923) The Man With Yellow Eyes

“Harchester Hall, down at Purdston, has been bought by old Whitney Vandermonde for his heiress to enjoy a year or two of life in England. Anybody with any human feeling would catch a flavour of money in the air if the niece of one of the richest men in the world chanced to settle down more or less next door–as she has with us. If I am any judge of things, our little place at Purdston will reek of money before long. The lady took possession last week, didn’t she?”

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Earl Derr Biggers (1913) Seven Keys To Baldpate

  Biggers (1913) Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate is an early novel by Earl Derr Biggers, best known for creating Charlie Chan. This 1913 novel is engaging in style and its clever premise leads to a surprise ending. The novel was made into a play, written and staged by no less than George M. Cohan. The first stage play opened in New York in 1913 and proved to be Cohan’s most popular play. Cohan went on to star in the leading character role in the first silent film version in 1917. He reprised the leading role of Billy Magee on stage in 1935.

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  Biggers (1925) The House Without A Key [Charlie Chan #1]

“This is an alien world you’re entering now. Not Boston, John Quincy, nor any other old, civilized place. Not the kind of place where the mind rules. Out here it’s the heart that charts our course. People you’re fond of do the wildest, most unreasonable things, simply because their minds are sleeping and their hearts are beating fast. Just– just remember that, John Quincy.”

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  Brundage (1921) What Happened To Tommy

“There was once a nice old Pussycat, and they called her Mrs. Pussins. She had three little Kittens, Tommy and the Twins. Mrs. Pussins loved the twins, but Tommy was her pride and joy because he looked so much like his dear father, and it was her earnest wish for Tommy to inherit his father’s Wonderful Voice. And that is why she sang him to sleep every night to train his ear for music, and because he was rather small she weighed him every day to see if he was growing any.”

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  Buchan (1924) The Three Hostages

“They are masters of propaganda, you know. Dick, have you ever considered what a diabolical weapon that can be — using all the channels of modern publicity to poison and warp men’s minds? It is the most dangerous thing on earth. You can use it cleanly — as I think on the whole we did in the War — but you can also use it to establish the most damnable lies. Happily in the long run it defeats itself, but only after it has sown the world with mischief.”

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  Churchill (1901) The Crisis

The Crisis is an historical novel of the Civil War written by the “American Churchill.” Only a distant relative of the English Winston Churchill, the American Churchill was actually far better known to the public in their early days. So much so that the English Churchill offered to include his middle name Spencer in his signature to help avoid public confusion between them.

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  Cohen (1921) Midnight

“The rest of the journey was a nightmare. The suburb through which he was passing seemed to have congealed. Save for the corner lights, there was no sign of life. The roofs and sidewalks glistened with ice. Occasionally the car struck a bump and skidded dangerously. Spike had forgotten his passenger, forgotten the restaurant, the coffee, the weather itself. He only remembered that he was cold–almost unbearably cold.”

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Right And Wrong Thinking

  Crane (1905) Right And Wrong Thinking And Their Results

“The relation of thinking to every bodily action from the smallest to the greatest is that of cause to effect, therefore the same is true of the relation of thinking to health and disease. Harmonious thinking is the cause; health is the effect. Discordant thinking is the cause; disease is the effect. Each person has built as he would; each person may build as he will.”

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