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the thing I heard most consistently from these people, even at the height of the recession, was how hard it was to find employees

The Creepy Guys and the Nice Guys are exactly the same guys. Nice Guys are simply the guys who have successfully concealed their creepiness.

The goal used to be running. Now the goal is seeing a line in the mountains and tracing it in the most efficient way

bio of Samuel Eberly Gross

It caught us by surprise… If we had known that this was coming, we would have been able to disrupt it,” Gilles Michaud, assistant

When the weather was poor the men would sit together in Minor’s room – a small and practically furnished cell not too dissimilar from

“a hard constructive animality’ ‘nowhere was there any blank indifference to life. People cursed or raved or snarled, but they were never heavy, or

What is missing from their reports from the underside is the energy and institutional vitality of the city’s newest ethnic colonies, and the uncrushable

Chicago mayor, etc. libertarian; segregated vice trade

Women were incapable of separating business from social life, declared a women’s journal, and were by nature oversensitive, “expecting the same little delicate attention