1920 (51 page)

146: “Have Jake sleep on the roof,” quoted in Miller, Nathan,
p. 264
.

146:
“Her standard lecture,” Chesler,
pp. 218
–9.

146: “‘What Every Girl Should Know,'” Gray,
p. 43
.

147: “indicative of a higher,” Chesler,
p. 66
.

147: “insisted that existing,” ibid.,
p. 66
.

147: “The editors printed,” Miller, Nathan,
p. 266
.

147: “The marriage bed,” quoted in Gray,
p. 74
.

147: “
The Western Watchman
,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 75
.

148: “In Defense of Assassination,” ibid.,
p. 75
.

149: “In court, however,” ibid.,
p. 76
.

149: “Don't wait to see,” and “If there is,” and “By taking the above,”
FL
, Project Gutenberg eBook, March 26, 2010, [eBook #31790], unpaginated.

150: “where a new system,” Furnas,
p. 94
.

151: “a brilliant pamphlet,” Chesler,
p. 145
.

151: “However small this operation,” ibid.,
p. 146
.

151: “No other class,” ibid.,
p. 146
.

151: “The little woman,”
BDE
, October 26, 1916.

152: “to do away with the Jews,”
NYT
, January 5, 1917.

152: “die, if need be,” quoted in Chesler,
p. 153
.

152: “[T]he national wire services,” ibid.,
pp. 153
–4.

153: “Regardless of the outcome,” quoted in Cooper, Jr.,
Pivotal Decade
,
p. 207
.

154: “beyond verbal instruction,” ibid.,
p. 157
.

155: “to rest and be alone,” ibid.,
p. 158
.

156: “made a curious refrain,” ibid.,
p. 159
.

157: “sought to prevent,” Miller, Nathan,
p. 269
.

158: “[t]o purify the breeding stock,” quoted in Bryson, p. 365.

158: “the surest, the simplest,” quoted in ibid., p. 362.

159: “The real hope of the world,” quoted in Parrish,
p. 135
.

160: “was tiny, at four foot eleven,” Zuckoff,
p. 79
.

161: “By July 4,” ibid.,
p. 221
.

162: “recognized internationally,” quoted in Zuckoff,
p. 184
.

163: “QUESTIONS THE MOTIVE,”
BP
, July 26, 1920,
p. 1
.

163: “If Mr. Rockefeller,” quoted in Zuckoff,
p. 294
.

163: “‘immoral' because it would be,” quoted in Dunn,
p. 228
.

164: “PUBLIC NOTICE,” quoted in
BP
, July 27,
p. 1
.

165: “
EXTRA
COUPON PLAN,” quoted in ibid., July 30, 1920,
p. 1
.

166: “DECLARES PONZI IS NOW HOPELESSLY INSOLVENT, quoted in ibid., August 2, 1920,
p. 1
.

167: “fabulous sum,” Zuckoff,
p. 228
.

168:
“The clerk persisted,” ibid.,
p. 288
.

168: “There are no second acts in American life,” Fitzgerald,
Last Tycoon
,
p. 189
.

168: “A few days after,” ibid.,
pp. 293
–4.

169: “The deportation scene,” Dunn,
pp. 251
–2.

170: “When he was down,” quoted in Zuckoff,
p. 310
.

170: “corresponded with some regularity,” ibid.,
p. 311
.

171: “Perhaps I made a mess,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 311
.

172: “by running a small rooming house,” ibid.,
p. 310
.

172: “I hit the American people,” ibid.,
p. 313
.

172: “I am doing fairly well,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 313
.

173: “It was false hope,” ibid.,
p. 313
.

173: “a swindle in which,”
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged
. New York: Random House, 1987.

174: “Ponzi was a great equalizer,”
NYT
, December 15, 2008.

176: “they talked like master,” Walworth, Volume I,
p. 9
.

176: “There were readings,” ibid.,
p. 10
.

177: “First, he wanted,” Cooper, Jr.,
Warrior
,
p. 107
.

179: “It seemed the whole,” Smith, Gene,
pp. 37
–8.

180: “THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,”
LNC
.

181: “narrow, selfish, provincial purposes,” quoted in Walworth, Volume II,
p. 269
.

182: “I have fighting blood,” quoted in ibid.

184: “Omnipotence,”
LC-J
, December 9, 1916.

184: “We have petticoat government!” quoted in Miller, Kristie,
p. 193
.

184: “So began my stewardship,” quoted in Levin,
p. 344
.

185: “It has been written,” ibid., pp. 515–16.

185: “was petulant, irascible,” Blum,
p. 191
.

186: “a completely discounted factor,” Smith, Gene,
p. 102
.

186: “What this country needs,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 102
.

186: “Mme. President,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 214
.

188: “The only decision that was mine,” quoted in Levin,
p. 344
.

188: “senators of both parties united,”
NYT
, March 20, 1920,

188: “Edith withheld the news,” Miller, Kristie
p. 216
.

189: “has been criticized,” ibid.,
pp. 216
–7.

189: “Mr. Wilson died,” quoted in Smith.

193: “a central need,” Barnouw,
p. 48
.

193:
“Experimental stations opened in New York,” Perrett,
p. 229
.

194: “AIR CONCERT ‘PICKED UP,'”
PS
, September 29, 1920.

194: “If a retail store,” quoted in Abels,
p. 195
.

195: “On the roof,” Barnouw,
p. 69
.

196: “Will anyone hearing this broadcast,”
KDKA
,
p. 4
.

196: “while … crowds stood,” ibid.,
p. 4
.

196: “And so it seems, ladies and gentlemen,”
KDKA-CD
.

196: “many of whom,” Lewis, Tom,
p. 153
.

196: “To increase audience,”
KDKA
,
p. 3
.

198: “The first regularly broadcast church services,” ibid.,
p. 2
.

198: “the electronic equivalent,” and “middle-class consumers,” quoted in Miller, Donald L.,
p. 302
.

200: “In the end,” Murray,
p. 120
.

201: “When one surveys,” and other Harding Inaugural excerpts from www.bartleby.com/124/pres46.html.

201: “He writes the worst English,” quoted in
NYTM
, “The Language Thing,” Maureen Dowd, July 29, 1990.

202: “did not provide moral leadership,” Trani and Wilson,
pp. 191
–2.

202: “had another side,” Hoover,
p. 48
.

203: “Forbes nonetheless had earlier once,” ibid., p. 429.

204: “worthless,” quoted in Wish, p. 352.

204: “Forbes was indeed selling,” Dean,
p. 140
.

204: “and even hardware,” Murray, p. 460.

205: “You yellow rat!”, quoted in Trani and Wilson,
p. 182
.

206: “Years later,” Dean,
p. 141
.

207: “In an ironic twist,” ibid.,
p. 141
.

208: “Given the fact,” Dean,
p. 142
.

209: “without doubt,” Murray,
p. 106
.

209: “definitely knew about,” ibid., p. 484.

210: “a gay crowd,” quoted in Kramer, 434.

211: “Mystery had surrounded Smith's death,” Dean,
p. 144
.

211: “Although Jess Smith's suicide,” Murray, p. 437.

212: “illegally transferring,” ibid.,
p. 159
.

212: “maintained that he had been unaware,” Trani and Wilson,
p. 181
.

213: “If anybody does not like,” Murray, p. 482.

214: “was regarded as above suspicion,” Trani and Wilson,
p. 106
.

215: “When the hearings commenced,” Dean,
p. 157
.

215: “a decade of financial difficulties,” Wish, p. 357.

217: “My God, this is a hell of a job,” quoted in White,
Autobiography
, p. 619.

218:
“the most beautiful woman,” Dean,
p. 26
.

219: “I believe I can swing it,” White,
Puritan
,
p. 241
.

220: “Some will say,”
CDS
, Volume XLIV, Number 65, December 11, 1923.

227: “sent off to Barren Island,” Gage,
p. 199
.

227: “Are the authorities,”
NYW
, September 22, 1920.

228: “the murder hour,” quoted in Brooks,
p. 12
.

229: “Remember, we will not tolerate,” quoted in Gage,
p. 171
.

230: “The Anarchist Fighters,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 172
.

230: “Carusso, Abato, Ferro,” Brooks,
p. 15
.

230: “fit nobody's picture,” Gage,
p. 175
.

230: “neither a Sicilian,” Brooks,
p. 16
.

231: “In the week before,” Gage,
p. 176
.

231: “a passenger in a Hudson Tube train,” Brooks,
p. 16
.

231: “I know when,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 17
.

232: “Lunacy Commission,” quoted in Gage,
p. 176
.

232: “millionaires who ought to be killed,” Brooks,
p. 17
.

232: “a lopsided gray cap,” ibid.,
p. 18
.

233: “With just a handful,” Gage,
p. 172
.

233: “A chauffeur named,” ibid.,
p. 197
.

234: “Dupont Powder Company,” and “Danger,” quoted in Gage,
p. 198
.

234: “She told police,” ibid.,
p. 198
.

234: “It was revealed,”
NYT
, September 17, 1920.

235: “[Palmer] suggested,” ibid.,
p. 183
.

236: “For a decade and more,” Brooks,
p. 19
.

237: “notorious for its Italian criminals,” quoted in Gage,
p. 226
.

240: “satirized Gopher Prairie,” Miller,
p. 64
.

240: “The days of pioneering,” and “a bulwark of sound religion,” Lewis,
p. 1
.

241: “owed much of its success,” Furnas,
p. 83
.

241: “inventing stereotypes,” ibid.,
pp. 83
–4.

242: “What is the greatest thing,” quoted in Miller,
p. 65
.

242: “Home is the place where,” quoted in Lathem, ed., “The Death of the Hired Man,”
p. 38
.

242: “pointed at the fuzzy brown head,” and “‘Yump, probably be changes,'” Lewis, p. 367.

243: “This is a hell,” and “How about some of that champagne,” Hemingway,
p. 61
.

243:
“For a true writer,” www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-speech.html.

244: “Women—of whom he had expected,” Fitzgerald,
Paradise
,
p. 238
.

245: “she wrote to him,” Milford,
p. 56
.

245: “And she added,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 56
.

246: “practiced in front,” ibid.,
pp. 142
–3.

246: “There was no automatic,” ibid., p. 383.

246: “So we beat on,” Fitzgerald,
Gatsby
,
p. 159
.

247: “Here was a new generation,” Fitzgerald,
Paradise
,
p. 255
.

249: “sham, spurious,” Lawrence,
Rainbow
, p. 410.

249: “organised fighting,” and “tumbling into the bottomless pit,” ibid.,
p. 308
.

249: “[s]he hated religion,” ibid.,
pp. 270
.

249: “The two men had,” Lawrence,
Women
,
p. 193
.

250: “I do not claim,” quoted in Pilley, W. Charles.
John Bull
, September 17, 1921.

250: “I should like to know,”
LHS
, December 2, 1913.

250: “I believe the nearest,” quoted in Mackenzie,
pp. 167
–8.

251: “savage enough pilgrimage,” Carswell, book title, various references.

252: “his extravagance of personality,” Morgan,
p. 78
.

252: “desolate, tranquil,” and, “was dreary, yes,” Hack,
p. 65
.

253: “wanted to hug someone,” ibid.,
p. 74
.

253: “The intense interest,” Christie,
Mysterious Affair
,
p. 193
.

254: “curiously colourless,” Morgan,
p. 25
.

255: “Apart from replying,” Christie,
Autobiography
, p. 511.

256: “Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective,”
NYT
, August 6, 1975.

257: “a thin-skinned sensitive,” quoted in www.googlebooks.com/?id=CnnX6jlFufec&pg=PA67&dq=a+thin-skinned+sensitive,+a+dithering+compass.

258: “You [Americans] will be having,” quoted in Douglas, Ann,
p. 181
.

258: “Let us go then,” Eliot,
p. 13
.