xi: “a punishing, postwar recession,” Miller, Donald L., p. 115.
xii: “When will hate be exhausted?”, quoted in McAuliffe, p. 309.
xii: “shallow, depraved, and corrupt,” Bryson, p. 68.
xii: “some kind of radical depletion,” quoted in Niven, p. 166.
xii: “Neither race had won,” Fussell, p. 13.
xiv: “Prohibition is better,” and “Why don’t they pass,” www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/prohibition.html.
3: “was very short and stocky,” Bryson, p. 282.
5: “technology of haste,” Boorstin, p. 102.
5: “with little regard to safety,” ibid., p. 103.
6: “a national disgrace,” and “made of dirt,” Winchester, p. 282.
6: “By the final decade,” McFarland, p. 31.
7: “a small ‘mobilization army,’” www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/chapter2.htm.
9: “For millions of people,” McCullough, p. 614.
9: “Wall Street seemed to be,” Gage, p. 18.
9: “Sales and re-sales,” WSJ, July 4, 1919.
10: “the sidewalks were as usual thronged,” Sullivan, United States, p. 176.
10: “aggregation of ingenuity,” and “powered the unprecedented,” McFarland, p. 231.
11: “While in Juneau Tuesday,” NYT, July 16, 1920.
11: “little correspondence,” and, “inflated rises,” Bryson, p. 208.
12: “Fluctuations in sugar,” MWS, p. 13.
13: “the explosion darkened the area,” Brooks, p. 1.
13: “That was the loudest noise,” quoted in Gage, p. 31.
13: “I was sitting at my desk,” quoted in ibid., p. 32.
13: “was at the southeast corner,” quoted in ibid., pp. 31–2.
13: “‘he felt a concussion,” Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 69.
13: “was lifted completely,” ibid., p. 31.
14: “Survivors on the street,” Brooks, p. 5.
14: “was hurled down the steps,” Gage, p. 32.
14: “For several blocks,” Sullivan, p. 177.
14: “A nearby automobile,” NYP, “Wall Street’s Unsolved Bombing Mystery,” Richard Bryk, March 26, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts.
14: “as nine-tenths of a billion dollars,” Brooks, p. 9.
20: “The joint session,” quoted in Reed, pp. 270–271.
21: “were found to be carrying,” and “neither man had been arrested,” Bryson, 275.
22: “one of the most notorious anarchists,” quoted in Gage, p. 207.
22: “licking the altars,” quoted in Bryson, p. 280.
23: “With his neatly trimmed beard,” Gage, p. 208.
23: “hatred of capitalism,” Avrich, Portraits, p. 167.
24: “[o]ne of the most difficult,” Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti, p. 209.
24: “Mrs. Martin’s linen closet,” Wade, p. 33.
25: “in caves in the bowels,” quoted in ibid., p. 43.
27: “blaze of revolution,” and “like a prairie fire,” quoted in ibid., p. 165.
27: “announced that a plot,” Daniels, p. 46.
27: “as if something,” quoted in Bryson, p. 278.
27: “Alice [Roosevelt] Longworth,” ibid., p. 46.
27: “a terrific explosion,” Murray, Red Scare, p. 78.
28: “This was a big loss,” Bryson, p. 279.
28: “The more I think of it,” quoted in Coben, p. 71.
29: “initiated the first,” Gage, p. 120.
29: “most spectacular,” Moore, p. 227.
30: “2,000 REDS ARRESTED,” NYW, January 3, 1920, p. 1.
30: “Meetings wide open,” NYT, January 3, 1920, p. 1.
30: “I was sent up,” quoted in Coben, pp. 228–9.
30: “some six thousand to ten thousand,” Bryson, p. 281.
31: “There is no time,” WP, January 4, 1920, p. 4.
31: “The January raids,” Murray, Red Scare, p. 217.
31: “halted the advance,” ibid., p. 217.
32: “only 762 were ordered deported,” Cannato, pp. 326–7.
32: “By then,” ibid., p. 326.
32: “many domestic radicals,” Murray, Red Scare, p. 240.
32: “complete collapse,” and “The Attorney-General,” quoted in Coben, p. 222.
33: “one-legged, one-armed,” NYW, November 25, 1919.
33: “perpetual joke,” ibid.
33: “The passport regulations,” NYT, July 18, 1920.
40: “I came unexpectedly,” quoted in Kobler, p. 119.
40: “east to Wheeling,” Burns, Spirits, p. 105.
41: “Sometimes bartenders baptized,” ibid., p. 106.
42: “organized mother love,” WCTU.
42: “Tremble, King Alcohol,” and “Young Man,” WCTU.
43: “locomotive in trousers,” quoted in Asinof, p. 227.
44: “One day a laborer,” Burns, Spirits, p. 154.
45: “informed that there are,” quoted in Behr, p. 69.
45: “pleaded, they wheedled,” Mordden, p. 142.
45: “actually purchased,” Burns, Spirits, p. 159.
46: “I do it the way,” Mordden, p. 142.
46: “controlled six Congresses,” quoted in Steuart, p. 11.
46: “demanding that a worldwide prohibition,” Burns, Spirits, p. 158.
48: “[t]he air became thick,” ibid., pp. 190–1.
49: “He blended two parts,” Perrett, p. 176.
50: “Last Sunday I manufactured,” quoted in Mordden, p. 147.
50: “Mother’s in the kitchen,” Kobler, p. 238.
51: “In southern Florida,” Perrett, p. 175.
51: “To get started,” adapted and condensed from Burns, Spirits, pp. 195–6.
52: “Appointments varied, of course,” Burns, Spirits, p. 199.
53: “The headwaiters,” Miller, Donald L., p. 124.
53: “Door fitters were in especial demand,” Lee, pp. 55–6.
54: “never saw corpses,” quoted in Furnas, Great Times, p. 353.
54: “speak softly shop,” quoted in Cashman, p. 43.
54: “Hush! Don’t ’ee sing so loud,” Hardy, p. 26.
54: “Robert Benchley,” Mordden, p. 134.
54: “[f]ederal officials believed,” Burns, Spirits, p. 197.
55: “People made jokes,” Burns, Spirits, p. 199.
55: “it took money,” This Fabulous Century, p. 160.
55: “New York speakeasy owners,” Cashman, p. 44.
56: “[O]rganized crime afflicted,” Fox, p. 11.
56: “Nothing like it,” Dash, p. 268.
57: “a tightening of the throat,” Bryson, p. 160.
59: “There is but one way,” quoted in Parrish, pp. 138–9.
59: “a reward for what women,” Cantor, p. 151.
60: “a large property owner,” Gurko, pp. 23–4.
60: “The governor, in response,” Tindall, Volume I, pp. 92–3.
60: “In some colonies,” Gurko, p. 24.
61: “When, in the course of human events,” and following quotes from the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, DSR, unpaginated.
63: “It was argued,” Gurko, p. 101.
65: “The precedent was so unusual,” ibid., p. 72.
66: “protested her disenfranchisement,” ibid.
66: “With my own teeth,” quoted in Gordon and Radway, pp. 157–8.
66: “Ever the innovator,” Weatherford, p. 165.
66: “[T]all and slender,” ibid., p. 113.
67: “to take the responsibility,” ibid., p. 250.
67: “had the incredible experience,” ibid., p. 251.
67: “The women who had voted,” ibid., p. 254.
67: “Knowing that she would be tried,” Seldes, p. 280.
68: “white and frail,” ibid., p. 179.
68: “To think I have had,” quoted in www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905.
68: “Both the organized women’s movement,” Cooper, Jr., p. 63.
70: “We were all poor,” and “churchpeople, thieves,” and “a woman hollered,” quoted in Bergreen, p. 15.
70: “Chastized as the devil’s music,” Gioia, p. 31.
70: “Does Jazz Put the Sin,” quoted in Bryson, p. 69.
70: “Those Baptist rhythms,” Gioia, p. 31.
70: “[Buddy] Bolden,” ibid., p. 31.
71: “the mournful energy,” Moore, p. 45.
71: “entered just a fraction,” Bergreen, p. 205.
72: “transformed whatever piece,” ibid.
72: “put a new piece together,” quoted in Bergreen, p. 128.
73: “He really did perform,” Teachout, p. 15.
74: “The black population in Northern cities,” Green, p. 98.
75: “The French allied forces,” Horton, p. 161.
75: “About 2 A.M.,” www.northcarolinaroom.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-battle-of-henry-johnson.
76: “I am of the opinion,” SEP, August 24, 1918.
77: “In Chicago,” Weinberg, p. 213.
78: “learned about the colonization,” Archer, p. 85.
78: “But when Marcus Garvey,” Grant, p. 184.
79: “I am President-General,” quoted in ibid., pp. 77–8.
79: “eventually claimed a circulation,” Archer, p. 94
80: “did what no black person,” Grant, p. 320.
80: “Have this day,” quoted in ibid., p. 333.
80: “Garvey intends to reorganise,” quoted in ibid., p. 334.
81: “to encourage black,” www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml.
81: “Today I made myself,” quoted in www.afropoets.net/marcusgarvey2.html.
82: “Garvey is a West Indian Negro,” quoted in ibid., p. 98.
83: “Mr. Garvey immediately,” Grant, pp. 371–2.
84: “Garvey’s and the Black Star Line’s,” Grant, pp. 373–4.
84: “spectacular antics,” quoted in Smith, Page, pp. 213–14.
85: “learning to accept insult,” quoted in NAACP, p. 2.
85: “was not the mere gathering,” ibid.
86: “is merely the logical result,” Current Biography, 1944, p. 742.
86: “Father of Black History,” quoted in Goggin, p. 181.
87: “a key to our freedom,” quoted in ibid., Goggin, p. 209.
87: “Dr. Woodson often said,” NAACP, p. 2.
91: “with the regularity,” Bain, p. 288.
92: “Between a third and two-fifths,” Kyvig, Daily Life, p. 12.
93: “As the historian Paul Johnson,” quoted in Roberts, p. 92.
93: “the bitch-goddess SUCCESS,” quoted in www.goodreads.com/quotes168833-the-moral-flabbiness-born-of-the-worship-of-the-bitch-goddess-SUCCESS.
94: “association of poverty,” quoted in Drabelle, p. 187.
95: “There is no right,” quoted in Abels, p. 19.
97: “We work in his mine,” quoted in Perrett, p. 46.
97: “forced striking miners,” Savage, p. 12.
98: “the Hatfields had tied,” Savage, p. 10
98: “had been only a boy,” ibid., p. 11.
98: “rather handsome young man,” ibid., p. 12.
99: “The report circulated,” ibid., p. 21.
100: “cutting telephone and telegraph wires,” ibid. 47.
101: “The demand for coal,” ibid., p. 48.
102: “between the men,” quoted in McFarland, p. 413.
103: “In 1920,” photo sent to author by Matewan city officials.
104: “a decidedly working-class neighborhood,” Zuckoff, p. 19.
105: “that relatives weary of paying,” Dunn, p. 9.
105: “dreamed aloud about,” Zuckoff, p. 20.
106: “I ship stuff,” and “a crate o’ tomatoes,” quoted Dunn, p. 9.
107: “with his growing skills,” ibid., p. 9.
108: “I have no figures,” quoted in ibid., p. 32.
108: “Ponzi was given a job,” Zuckoff, p. 47.
109: “thin, graying, tiny,” ibid., p. 31.
109: “He sold groceries,” Dunn, p. 10.
111: “That night, doctors removed,” pp. 53–4.
112: “Always have a goal,” quoted in ibid., pp. 30–31.
112: “In April 1906,” Zuckoff, p. 93.
112: “could be purchased,” www.images.businessweek.com/ss/09/0311_madoff/3.htm.
112: “more mundane and obscure,” Zuckoff, p. 93.
113: “The coupon had cost,” ibid., p. 95.
114: “Sixty-six coupons,” ibid., pp. 95–6.
114: “A confident tone of voice,” Dunn, p. 2.
116: “salesmanship and psychology,” quoted in ibid., p. 112.
118: “For every $10,” Parrish, p. 221.
119: “Securities Exchange Company,” quoted in Zuckoff, p. 133.
120: “DOUBLES THE MONEY,” BP, July 24, 1920.
121: “Ponzi literally couldn’t,” Bryson, pp. 337–8.
126: “a Hogarthian degradation,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 122.
127: The statistics on crime during Prohibition are provided by www.albany.edu/~wm731882/organized_crime1_final.html.
127: “Most often, the cutting,” Burns, Spirits, p. 218.
128: “It did not quarrel with,” ibid., p. 218.
128: “The person who drinks,” quoted in Barr, p. 241.
128: “seemed a notice,” Holbrook, p. 105.
129: “They should have permitted,” quoted in Bryson, p. 173.
129: “Bootleggers claimed,” Burns, Spirits, p. 219.
129: “a no-frills mixture,” ibid., p. 220.
130: “a distillation of alcohol,” ibid., p. 220.
130: “She just liked to drink,” ibid., p. 220.
130: “people wet their whistles,” ibid., p. 220.”
130: “The experienced drinker,” Morris, p. 36.
130: “Farm hands in the Midwest,” Burns, Spirits, p. 221.
131: “I call it legalized murder,” quoted in Mordden, p. 135.
131: “The victim of ‘jake paralysis,’” Shepherd, CW, July 26, 1930.
132: “so vicious a poison,” Burns, Spirits, 223.
132: “Recipes were invented,” Birmingham, pp. 241–2.
133: “In 1925,” ibid., p. 223.
133: “In 1927,” Mordden, p. 135.
134: “During the period,” Kyvig, Repealing, p. 24.
134: “reviewed the literature,” Lender and Martin, p. 139.
135: Table of figures, and “Obviously, drinking decline,” Abels, p. 87.
135: “In 1943,” Lender and Martin, p. 138.
135: “seemed more clear-headed,” Burns, Spirits, p. 280.
137: “There is less drinking,” quoted in ibid., p. 282.
138: “if any of the Republican members,” quoted in Weatherford, p. 241.
139: “confidence that the [Ohio] legislature,” quoted in ibid., p. 241.
139: “Many women also went,” ibid., p. 241.
139: “devotion to states’ rights,” ibid., p. 242.
139: “that they filed suits,” ibid., p. 240.
140: “conscience struck,” Weatherford, p. 243.
140: “Vote for suffrage,” quoted in Flexner and Fitzpatrick.
141: “Women screamed frantically,” NYT, August 19, 1920.
141: “a point of personal privilege,” and, “I changed my vote,” quoted in Weatherford, p. 243.
141: “Unable, despite threats and bribery,” Flexner, pp. 323–4.
142: “had no experience,” Weatherford, p. 196.
143: “Carrie Chapman Catt summed it up,” ibid., p. 244.
143: “Never in the history of politics,” quoted in ibid., p. 242.
145: “fine, clean and honest,” Gray, p. 23.
145: “Then she faced her worst test,” Douglas, Emily Taft, p. 9.
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.
261: “Smoke of a brick-red dust,” quoted in www.americanpoems.com/poets/carlsandburg/12898.
263: “a curious restaurant,” Manchester, p. 34.
264: “was a heavy drinker,” Smith, Page, pp. 1007–8.
264: “he worked briefly,” ibid., p. 1008.
264: “was based on a story,” ibid., p. 1008.
264: “Only when the eye,” quoted in Gelb and Gelb, pp. 261–2.
265: “overthrown by his own fear,” Perrett, p. 275.
265: “striking and dramatic study,” Smith, p. 1008.
265: “a simon pure uncompromising American tragedy,” Gelb and Gelb, p. 634.
265: “had little plot,” Perrett, p. 274.
265: “Supposing I was to tell you,” O’Neill, p. 85.
266: “In its time,” Gelb and Gelb, p. 638.
266: “so full of meat,” quoted in ibid., p. 639.
266: “hid behind a pillar,” Perrett, p. 274.
266: “I have an innate feeling,” quoted in Gelb and Gelb, p. 638.
267: “Vicious Circle,” quoted in Frewin, p. 36.
267: “illuminating not only the world of theatre,” Hart, p. 35.
268: “nearly all famous,” ibid., p. 152.
268: “[New Yorker art critic Murdock] Pemberton,” Yagoda, p. 31.
269: “Every girl,” quoted on algonquinroundtable.org/quotes.html.
269: “I know I’m drinking,” and “That woman speaks, and “I like to have a martini,” and “Men seldom make passes,” quoted on brunerbiz.com/humour/Algonquin-round-table-quotes/high_#4.
269: “You can lead a horticulture,” quoted in www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/4181000.html.
269: “I know a man,” and “We wish you,” quoted in Altman, p. 168.
269: “For an entire decade,” Meister, p. 190.
271: “The Algonquin Round Table,” quoted in Teichman, Kaufman, p. 64.
272: “These things don’t last forever,” quoted in enwikipedia.org/wiki/AlgonquinRound Table/#Decline_of_the_Round_Table.
272: “These were no giants,” quoted in ibid.
273: “Americans had more steel,” quoted in www.manythings.org/voa/history/173.htm.
274: “Fate was a very serious musician,” quoted in Bergreen, p. 144.
275: “Best dance music,” quoted in Teachout, p. 53.
275: “Knowin’ that my tone,” quoted in ibid., p. 73.
276: “widely held to be,” Bryson, p. 69.
276: “‘Does Jazz Put the Sin,” quoted in ibid., p. 69.
276: “a non-musical nineteenth-century slang,” Goodall, p. 245.
276: “from black patois,” and “as popularly applied,” Mordden, p. 153.
277: “trying to explain jazz,” Douglas, Ann, p. 451.
278: “Never before had that black community,” Fax, p. 1.
278: “Harlem was clean,” Miller, Nathan, p. 220.
278: “Du Bois encouraged Langston Hughes,” Parrish, p. 220.
279: “The idea of taking a residential community,” quoted in Schoener, ed., p. 79.
279: “there was another part of it,” Hasse, p. 114.
279: “synonymous with the greatest Negro entertainment,” ibid., p. 132.
279: “[e]legant, reserved without being stiff,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 504.
279: “This was no ordinary night club,” Hasse, p. 102.
279: “a backdrop painted with weeping willows,” Calloway, p. 88.
279: “brutes at the door,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 515.
280: “However Ellington felt about it,” Hasse, pp. 100–101.
280: “his influence to have the owners,” Miller, Donald L., p. 515.
281: “feeling like a bull moose,” quoted in Morris, Colonel, p. 215.
281: “the nightclub capital of the world,” Miller, Donald L., p. 516.
281: “Long after the cascading lights,” Morris, Lloyd, p. 333.
283: “Now I can read his letters,” www.songlyrics.com/mamie-smith/crazy-blues-lyrics/.
283: “for the Hammond (Indiana) pros,” Stewart, Ed., pp. 44–45.
283: “The play was about an Ethiopian,” Stewart, ed., p. 190.
284: “that ultimately led,” ibid., p. 205.
285: “I ain’t got no quarrel,” and “Shall Negro sharecroppers,” quoted in www.iancfriedman.com/?=284.
286: “Long before Native Son,” Rodgers, p. 310.
286: “Mencken had made,” quoted in ibid., pp. 179–180.
286: “buoyed up,” quoted in ibid., p. 180.
287: “The Negro is primarily an artist,” Du Bois, p. 287.
287: “Above and beyond,” ibid., p. 320.
287: “English contemporaries [of Eliot],” ibid., p. 112.
288: “hoped to get from their friendship,” ibid., p. 94.
288: “African guardian of souls,” www.poemhunter.com/poem/conversion.
290: “Play that thing,” quoted in Rampersad and Roessel, eds., p. 60.
290: “Shake your brown feet, honey,” quoted in ibid., p. 29.
291: “O, let America be,” quoted in allpoetry.com/poem/8495513-Let_America_Be_America_Again-by-Langston_Hughes.
291: “On the Mediterranean Sea,” Jackson, ed., p. 103.
292: “slumbering but awful God,” ibid., p. 144.
292: “What matters that I stormed,” ibid., p. 36.
293: “a pillar of the Harlem intellectual community,” Miller, Donald L., p. 517.
293: “Locke was as much in his element,” Lewis, pp. 87–8.
293: “observed that European artists,” Huggins, p. 80.
294: “The Negro mind,” quoted in ibid., p. 116.
294: “The only safeguard,” quoted in ibid., p. 115.
294: “We have tomorrow,” quoted in ibid., p. 118.
295: “laid the philosophical basis,” Douglas, Ann, p. 116.
296: “a hint of sexual frenzy,” Bryson, p. 69.
297: “Before the First World War,” Perrett, p. 157.
297: “The girl who jumped,” Moore, p. 69.
297: “Originating with Southern blacks,” Boardman, p. 16.
298: “which involved hopping forward,” Bryson, p. 69.
298: “Everyone! Down on your heels,” quoted in www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/goodnews.varsitydrag/htm.
299: “And tell me, Niel,” Cather, pp. 111–112.
299: “There was a huge increase,” Burns, Smoke, p. 175.
299: “More women now do the same work,” ibid., p. 175.
300: “Particularly when smoked by women,” Tate, p. 24.
300: “The amount of fabric,” Bryson, p. 69.
300: “breathtaking skimpiness,” Bryson, p. 69.
302: “The Roaring Twenties,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 529.
303: “has fallen into oblivion,” Avrich, Portraits, p. 167.
304: “Once you register,” Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti, p. 59.
304: “You heard Galleani speak,” quoted in enwikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galleani.
305: “I have never heard,” Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti, p. 49.
305: “Attending lectures,” Avrich, Portraits, p. 173.
306: “After selecting a target,” Gage, p. 326.
307: “fits what we know of him,” ibid., p. 326.
307: “my uncle’s bomb,” ibid., p. 326.