Rags-to-riches author Horatio

Usage examples of alger.

Boone the widow, Nina the niece, Alger Kates, and a gate-crasher named Solomon Dexter.

The time involved was about half an hour, between seven-fifteen, when Phoebe Gunther left the baby carriage and its contents, including the monkey wrenches, with Boone in the room, and around seven forty-five, when Alger Kates discovered the body.

Arriving in New York, she had gone with Alger Kates and Nina Boone to the BPR New York office, where Kates had gone into the statistical section, and she and Nina had helped department heads to collect props to be used as illustrations of points in the speech.

I put my coat and hat on a chair and followed her into the room, and there was Alger Kates over in the corner where the light was dim.

But Alger Kates suddenly stood up, as if I had brandished a monkey wrench at her.

Nero Wolfe, as Alger Kates put it, was in the pay of NIA, and they reacted accordingly.

Inspector Cramer, Sergeant Stebbins, and a couple of others were in the dining room firing questions at Alger Kates.

FBI, not to mention the head of the Homicide Squad, debating where Alger Kates was going to sleep, when he got a chance to sleep, and that after three cops had had the apartment to themselves long enough to saw all the legs off the chairs and glue them back on.

I gave her that and asked how about the possibility that the cylinder implicated Solomon Dexter or Alger Kates.

For reply Alger Kates put on one of the strangest performances I have ever seen, and I have seen plenty.

End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Cash Boy by Horatio Alger Jr.

End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Joe The Hotel Boy, by Horatio Alger Jr.

Nixon exposed the Truman and Roosevelt administrations as having appointed known saboteur Alger Hiss to positions of influence within the government.

Among them was Alger Hiss, a top State Department official, as well as his brother Donald Hiss.

American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil him in oil.