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While at SUNY Potsdam, she took up singing with a jazz trio in an off-campus bar called Alger's.
Bundy explained that Donald Hiss, Alger's brother, worked with him at Covington & Burling.

Alger's and because
Alger scholar Hoyt notes that Alger's morality " coarsened " around 1880, possibly influenced by the Western tales he was writing, because " the most dreadful things were now almost casually proposed and explored ".

Alger's and its
The Puritan ethic had loosened its grip on America, and violence, murder, and other sensational themes entered Alger's works.
Alger scholar Gary Scharnhorst describes Alger's style as " anachronistic ", " often laughable ", " distinctive ", and " distinguished by the quality of its literary allusions ".

Alger's and New
Abbot's studies were chiefly in Oriental languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings ( 5300 in all ) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages ( 1862 ), and published separately in 1864.
Horatio Alger's book Tattered Tom ; or, The Story of a Street Arab ( 1871 ) is an early example of street children in literature ; following the tale of a homeless girl who lives by her wits on the streets of New York.

Alger's and ;
In 1881, Alger informally adopted Charlie Davis, a street boy, and another, John Downie, in 1883 ; they lived in Alger's apartment.
Alger's works received favorable comments and experienced a resurgence following his death ; up until the advent of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, he sold about seventeen to twenty million volumes.

Alger's and which
The third theme is Beauty versus Money, which became central to Alger's adult fiction.
Although the frontier society was a thing of the past during Alger's career, Geck contends that " the idea of the frontier, even in urban slums, provides a kind of fairy tale orientation in which a Jack mentality can be both celebrated and critiqued ".
A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deserted from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
At the turn of the 20th century ( following Alger's service as Secretary of War ), he and Florida landowner Martin Sullivan established the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, which milled lumber in Century, Florida.
Among other miscellaneous activities, Hunnewell owned the home in which Horatio Alger's father lived until his death, now called the Horatio Alger House in Natick, Massachusetts.
Cowdery said he had discussed with Smith the " dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's ... in which I strictly declared that I had never deserted from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.

Alger's and was
An effort was made to remove Alger's works from public collections, but the debate was only partially successful, defeated by the renewed interest in Alger's work after his death.
In 1901, Young Captain Jack was completed by Stratemeyer and promoted as Alger's last work.
A 1982 musical, Shine !, was based on Alger's work, particularly Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden's Office Boy.
According to Scharnhorst, Alger's father was " an impoverished man " who defaulted on his debts in 1844.
By the Atomic Age, however " Alger's hero was no longer a poor boy who, through determination and providence rose to middle-class respectability.
He was the living example of the proverbial rags-to-riches protagonist in Horatio Alger's stories he loved so much.
One sidelight of Alger's career in the McKinley Administration was his personal vendetta against former Confederate partisan Col. John Singleton Mosby.

Alger's and being
Scharnhorst speculates this episode in Alger's childhood accounts for the recurrent theme in his boys ' books of heroes being threatened with eviction or foreclosure, and may account for Alger's " consistent espousal of environmental reform proposals ".

Alger's and ".
He claims that Alger's intended audience were youths whose " motivations for action are effectively shaped by the lessons they learn ".
Scharnhorst believes Alger's desire to atone for his " secret sin " may have " spurred him to identify his own charitable acts of writing didactic books for boys with the acts of the charitable patrons in his books who wish to atone for a secret sin in their past by aiding the hero ".
Trachtenberg observes that nothing prurient occurs in Ragged Dick but believes the few instances in Alger's work of two boys touching or a man and a boy touching " might arouse erotic wishes in readers prepared to entertain such fantasies ".

classmate and Joseph
He borrowed $ 1 million from William Joseph Connery, a former classmate at the University of Chicago, son of James Patrick Connery, who in turn was a former business partner of Will H. Hays of the Teapot Dome Scandal, and formed Haworth Pictures Corporation in 1918.
He was educated in Lebanon, Ohio and afterward at West Point in 1825, where he was a classmate to Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston.
The directors of the University chose him to be chancellor when his friend and Yale classmate Joseph Hoyt died in 1862.
The most significant result of the battle was that the Confederate commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, was wounded during the fighting, and was replaced by his friendly rival and West Point classmate, General Robert E. Lee.

classmate and Choate
At both Choate and Harvard, Lerner was a classmate of John F. Kennedy ; at Choate they had worked together on the yearbook staff.
After graduating in 1965 from Rosemary Hall ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ), where she was a classmate of Glenn Close, and in 1968 from Sarah Lawrence College, she worked as a ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year.

classmate and described
One classmate described him as " indeed physically attractive without being handsome ", but he was aloof, reserved and not generally popular at Claverack.
Here, he is described as a former classmate of Daffy's who has been plotting to destroy Earth since graduation.
Tallmadge, who had been a classmate of Nathan Hale while both were at Yale, described the capture of Hale.
The book, by author David Wallechinsky, the son of novelist Irving Wallace, and his " Pali " classmate, film critic Michael Medved, described Pacific Palisades as a microcosm of America during the tumultuous Summer of Love-era.
At Curtis, Foss began a lifelong friendship with classmate Leonard Bernstein, who later described Foss as an " authentic genius.
A junior-high classmate later described him as " this kid who was really tall, but who was kind of awkward, maybe getting picked on by the school bullies because his voice change at puberty was very rough ".
Duncan Lee, a college classmate, described him as a really " progressive person ".

classmate and Harvard
At Harvard, Plimpton was a classmate and close personal friend of Robert Kennedy.
In late 1839, Lowell met Maria White through her brother William, a classmate of his at Harvard.
The same year, Maria White's brother William introduced her to his Harvard College classmate, James Russell Lowell.
At Harvard he befriended fellow writers Kenneth Koch, Barbara Epstein, V. R. Lang, Frank O ' Hara and Edward Gorey, and was a classmate of Robert Creeley, Robert Bly and Peter Davison.
In their early years, Krukowski didn't own a drum kit, so he borrowed one from his Harvard classmate Conan O ' Brien, who'd bought a kit but had recently given up playing it.
He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, a member of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon ( Alpha chapter ).
Using a similar structure, the film next turns to a young Bill Gates at Harvard University, in the early 1970s, with classmate Steve Ballmer ( John DiMaggio ), and Gates ’ high school friend Paul Allen ( Josh Hopkins ).
During his time at Harvard, he was a classmate and became a close friend of future Founding Father and President of the United States John Adams.
Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker, a Harvard classmate, has said: " I ’ m not surprised to see him emerge as the moral conscience of our generation of journalists.
It was also publicized, just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ( a classmate of Lerner at Harvard ), that the show's original cast recording had been favorite bedtime listening in the White House, and that Kennedy's favorite lines were in the final number ( in which Arthur knights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of Camelot to future generations ):
She was inspired by a classmate of her brother, George Burgess Magrath, who was just getting his MD from Harvard Medical School and was particularly interested in death investigation.
Born a son of farmers in Newbury, Massachusetts, Moody graduated from Phillips Academy in 1872 and from Harvard, Phi Beta Kappa in 1876, where he was a classmate and friend of future President Theodore Roosevelt.
Noujaim had been Kaleil Tuzman's Harvard classmate and began filming Tuzman as he quit his job at Goldman Sachs, to begin govWorks with his high school friend Tom Herman.
At Harvard University from 1929 to 1933, Levine and classmate Hyman Bloom studied with Denman Ross.
As an undergraduate at Harvard University he regularly played poker with his classmate Bill Gates.
He is a general partner and co-founder of RRE Ventures, a private information technology venture investment firm, along with his son, James D. Robinson IV, a venture capitalist, and a classmate of his son from Harvard Business School, Stuart J. Ellman.
Culver was a featured speaker at the August 28, 2009 memorial service for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, speaking as his Harvard classmate and teammate, his colleague for a time in the Senate, and his longtime friend.
Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship is a biography by Owen Wister, depicting his long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard classmate.
He attended Harvard College in 1876, where he was friends with classmate Theodore Roosevelt, who, like Minot, was interested in ornithology.
" Hart told the survivors of the Harvard Class of 1880 that editing the cyclopedia " will be a very interesting and agreeable service to the memory of our great classmate.
The fund operated out of the offices of hedge fund pioneer Michael Steinhardt's Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co., and early investors included Eliot Spitzer ( a Harvard classmate, one of his oldest friends, and former Governor of New York who resigned ), Brill, and Peretz.
Cuomo mentioned in a 2006 interview with the Harvard college newspaper, The Crimson, that the lines mentioning " Cio-Cio San " and " watching Grunge leg-drop New Jack " were actually taken from an essay from a classmate of his at Harvard in an Expository Writing class.

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