Phillips David Graham
David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American journalist and novelist. Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College -- following which he received a degree from College of New Jersey in 1887. After completing his education, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving on to New York City where he was employed as a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the New York World until 1902. In his spare time, he wrote a novel, The Great God Success, that was published in 1901. The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while continuing to write fiction. Writing articles for various prominent magazines, he began to develop a reputation as a competent investigative journalist. Phillips' novels often commented on social issues of the day and frequently chronicled events based on his real-life journalistic experiences. He was considered a Progressive and a muckraker. Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate", exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. S. Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure. This and other similar articles helped lead to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, initiating popular instead of state-legislature election of U. S. senators. Phillips' reputation cost him his life in January 1911, when he was shot outside the Princeton Club at Gramercy Park in New York City. The killer was a Harvard-educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough who came from a prominent Philadelphia family. Goldsborough believed that Phillips' novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig had cast literary aspersions on his family. When confronting Phillips, Goldsborough yelled, "Here you go!" After Phillips collapsed, he yelled, "And here I go!", shooting himself in the head. Admitted to Bellevue Hospital, Phillips died there a day later. A 1992 novel by Daniel D. Victor, The Seventh Bullet, imagines a Sherlock Holmes investigation into Phillips' murder. Following Phillips' death, his sister Carolyn organized his final manuscript for posthumous publication as Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise. In 1931, that book would be made into an MGM motion picture of the same name and starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable. David Graham Phillips is interred in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill ONLY COUSIN NEVA Letty Morris" Mrs. Joe "was late for her Bohemian lunch. She called it Bohemian because she had asked a painter, a piano player and an actress, and was giving it in the restaurant of a studio building. As her auto rolled up to the curb, she saw at the entrance, just going away, a woman of whom her first thought was " What strange, fascinating eyes! " then, " Why, it's only Cousin Neva "; for, like most New Yorkers, she was exceedingly wary of out-of-town people, looking on them, with nothing to offer, as a waste of time and money. As it was, on one of those friendly impulses that are responsible for so much of the good, and so much of the evil, in this world, she cried, " Why, Genevieve Carlin! What are you doing here? " And she descended from her auto and rushed up to Neva. " How d'ye do, Letty ? " said Neva distantly. She had startled, had distinctly winced, at the sound of those affected accents and tones which the fashionable governesses and schools are rapidly making the natural language of " our set " and its fringes. " Why haven't you let me know? " she reproached. As the words left her lips, up rose within herself an answer which she instantly assumed was the answer. The divorce, of course! She flushed with annoyanceat her tactlessness. Her first sensation in thinking of divorce was always that it was scandalous, disgraceful, immoral, a stain upon the woman and her family; but quick upon that feeling, lingering remnant of discarded childhood training, always came the recollection that divorce was no longer unfashionable, was therefore no longer either immoral or disgraceful, was scandalous in a delightful, aristocratic way. " But," reflected she, " probably Neva still feels about that sort of thing as we all used to feelat least, all the...
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HER SERENE HIGHNESS - 1902 - Contents - CHAP. PAGE I. THE GRAND DUKES SPANIARD . . . I 11. AN AMERICAN INVADES . . . . . . 25 111. A SKIRMISH . . . . . . . . . . 45 IV. Two IN THE TREES . . . . . . . 58 VI. HER SERENE H IGHNESS SURRENDER 1 S 0 8 VII. THE GRAND DUKE GIVES BATTLE . . 126 VIII. THE AMERICAN IS REINFORCED . . . 134 EBRATE . . . . . . . . . . . 159 XI. AN OVERWHELMINGD EFEAT . . . . 171 XII. THE SPANIAR IS D C APTURED. . . . 193 Her Serene Highness Her Serene Highness The Grand Dukes Spaniard N the top floor of Graftons house, in Michigan Avenue, there was a room filled with U - what he called the sins of the fathers -the bad pictures and statuary come down from two generations of more or less misdirected enthusiasm for art. In old age his father had begun this collection forty years of dogged pursuit of good taste taught him much. Grafton wwwwy gJpgJ H e r S e r e n e H i g h n e s s completed it as soon as he came into possession. In him a Grafton at last combined right instinct and right judgment. Al though he was not yet thirty, every picture dealer of note in rnericaa nd Europe knew him, and he knew not only them but also a multitude of small dealers with whom he carefully kept himself unknown. He was no mere picture buyer. The pretentious plutocrats of that class excited in him contempt - and resentment. How often had one of them destroyed, with a coarse fling of a moneybag, his subtle plans to capture a remarkable old picture at a small price. For he was a true collector-he knew pictures, he knew where they were to be found, he knew how to lie in wait patiently, how to search secretly. And no small part The Grand Dukes Spaniard of his pride in his acquisitions came from what they represented as exhibits of his skill as a collector. A few months before his father died they were in New York and went together to see the collection of that famous plutocratic wholesale picture buyer, Henry Acton. Do you see the young Spaniard over there said the father, pointing to one of the best-placed pictures in the room. The son looked at it and was at once struck by the boldness, the imagination with which it was painted. Acton has it credited to Velasquez, he said. It does look something like, Velasquez, but it isnt, Im certain. That picture was one of my costly mistakes, continued the elder Grafton. I bought it as a Velasquez. I was completely taken in-paid eleven thousand dollars for it in Paris about twenty-five years ago. But I soon found out what Id done. How the critics did laugh at me When the noise quieted down I sold it. It was shipped back to Paris and they palmed it off on Acton. Just then Acton joined them. We were talking of your Velasquez there, said the elder Grafton. Acton grew red-the mention of that picture always put him angrily on the defensive. Yes it is a Velasquez. These ignorant critics say it isnt, but I know a Velasquez when I see one. And I know Velasquez painted that face, or it wasnt painted. It l1 hang there as a Velasquez while I live. and when I die it l1 hang in the Metropolitan Museum as a Velasquez. If they try to catalogue 4 WyE JWpgy JWyg J it any other way they lose my whole collection. While Acton was talking the younger I Grafton-was absorbed in the picture. The longer he looked the more he admired. He cared for pictures as well as for names, and he saw that this portrait was from a master-hand-the unknown painter had expressed through the features of that one face the whole of the Spaniard in the Middle Ages... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill ONLY COUSIN NEVA Letty Morris" Mrs. Joe "was late for her Bohemian lunch. She called it Bohemian because she had asked a painter, a piano player and an actress, and was giving it in the restaurant of a studio building. As her auto rolled up to the curb, she saw at the entrance, just going away, a woman of whom her first thought was " What strange, fascinating eyes! " then, " Why, it's only Cousin Neva "; for, like most New Yorkers, she was exceedingly wary of out-of-town people, looking on them, with nothing to offer, as a waste of time and money. As it was, on one of those friendly impulses that are responsible for so much of the good, and so much of the evil, in this world, she cried, " Why, Genevieve Carlin! What are you doing here? " And she descended from her auto and rushed up to Neva. " How d'ye do, Letty ? " said Neva distantly. She had startled, had distinctly winced, at the sound of those affected accents and tones which the fashionable governesses and schools are rapidly making the natural language of " our set " and its fringes. " Why haven't you let me know? " she reproached. As the words left her lips, up rose within herself an answer which she instantly assumed was the answer. The divorce, of course! She flushed with annoyanceat her tactlessness. Her first sensation in thinking of divorce was always that it was scandalous, disgraceful, immoral, a stain upon the woman and her family; but quick upon that feeling, lingering remnant of discarded childhood training, always came the recollection that divorce was no longer unfashionable, was therefore no longer either immoral or disgraceful, was scandalous in a delightful, aristocratic way. " But," reflected she, " probably Neva still feels about that sort of thing as we all used to feelat least, all the...
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HER SERENE HIGHNESS - 1902 - Contents - CHAP. PAGE I. THE GRAND DUKES SPANIARD . . . I 11. AN AMERICAN INVADES . . . . . . 25 111. A SKIRMISH . . . . . . . . . . 45 IV. Two IN THE TREES . . . . . . . 58 VI. HER SERENE H IGHNESS SURRENDER 1 S 0 8 VII. THE GRAND DUKE GIVES BATTLE . . 126 VIII. THE AMERICAN IS REINFORCED . . . 134 EBRATE . . . . . . . . . . . 159 XI. AN OVERWHELMINGD EFEAT . . . . 171 XII. THE SPANIAR IS D C APTURED. . . . 193 Her Serene Highness Her Serene Highness The Grand Dukes Spaniard N the top floor of Graftons house, in Michigan Avenue, there was a room filled with U - what he called the sins of the fathers -the bad pictures and statuary come down from two generations of more or less misdirected enthusiasm for art. In old age his father had begun this collection forty years of dogged pursuit of good taste taught him much. Grafton wwwwy gJpgJ H e r S e r e n e H i g h n e s s completed it as soon as he came into possession. In him a Grafton at last combined right instinct and right judgment. Al though he was not yet thirty, every picture dealer of note in rnericaa nd Europe knew him, and he knew not only them but also a multitude of small dealers with whom he carefully kept himself unknown. He was no mere picture buyer. The pretentious plutocrats of that class excited in him contempt - and resentment. How often had one of them destroyed, with a coarse fling of a moneybag, his subtle plans to capture a remarkable old picture at a small price. For he was a true collector-he knew pictures, he knew where they were to be found, he knew how to lie in wait patiently, how to search secretly. And no small part The Grand Dukes Spaniard of his pride in his acquisitions came from what they represented as exhibits of his skill as a collector. A few months before his father died they were in New York and went together to see the collection of that famous plutocratic wholesale picture buyer, Henry Acton. Do you see the young Spaniard over there said the father, pointing to one of the best-placed pictures in the room. The son looked at it and was at once struck by the boldness, the imagination with which it was painted. Acton has it credited to Velasquez, he said. It does look something like, Velasquez, but it isnt, Im certain. That picture was one of my costly mistakes, continued the elder Grafton. I bought it as a Velasquez. I was completely taken in-paid eleven thousand dollars for it in Paris about twenty-five years ago. But I soon found out what Id done. How the critics did laugh at me When the noise quieted down I sold it. It was shipped back to Paris and they palmed it off on Acton. Just then Acton joined them. We were talking of your Velasquez there, said the elder Grafton. Acton grew red-the mention of that picture always put him angrily on the defensive. Yes it is a Velasquez. These ignorant critics say it isnt, but I know a Velasquez when I see one. And I know Velasquez painted that face, or it wasnt painted. It l1 hang there as a Velasquez while I live. and when I die it l1 hang in the Metropolitan Museum as a Velasquez. If they try to catalogue 4 WyE JWpgy JWyg J it any other way they lose my whole collection. While Acton was talking the younger I Grafton-was absorbed in the picture. The longer he looked the more he admired. He cared for pictures as well as for names, and he saw that this portrait was from a master-hand-the unknown painter had expressed through the features of that one face the whole of the Spaniard in the Middle Ages... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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DECARMOS WIFE AND OTHER STORIES 1911-1913 -- CONTENTS .......... PAGE DEGARMOS WIFE 3 ENXD CouRrsHn .......... 115 MARRLAGE 154 .......... ............ LOVE 195 .. .C .. -. ........ RED ROSES AND WHITE 235 DEGARMOS WIFE DEGARMOS WIFE HE Degarmos had li
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The Great God Success
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Webster's edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are ¿difficult, and often encountered¿ in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word's meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster's Online Dictionary. PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
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The Plum Tree
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In The Plum Tree Phillips rips away the façade and exposes politics as it really exists. David Graham Phillips (1867 - 1911) was an American journalist and novelist. Phillips was a reporter in Cincinnati before moving to New York to work for The Sun. Phillips developed a reputation as an investigative reporter. Phillips's novels often commented on social issues of the day and frequently chronicled events based on his real-life journalistic experiences. He was considered a Progressive and a muckraker. His reputation eventually cost him his life. Phillips was murdered when his book The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig was published. A musician thought it had cast literary aspersions on his family. Although The Plum Tree is basically a romance it also is a political novel. Phillips unmasks politics in a way that is graphic and vivid. His skill as a journalist and his observations as a historian make this an intriguing book to read.
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