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roebuck
1. 15 Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of them, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart
2. 22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart
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4. “What is this, Sears and Roebuck, or did you make this from a Woolworths pattern? You still live in the same crummy apartment you had eight years ago
5. ) Note the following calculation for the growth of ALCOA as against that of Sears Roebuck and the DJIA group as a whole
6. But how relevant is this figure, generally considered central in common-stock valuations, to the case of ALCOA? Its past growth rate was excellent, actually a bit better than that of acclaimed Sears Roebuck and much higher than that of the DJIA composite
7. (This compares with a 1959 adjusted high price of 25½ for Sears Roebuck, or 20 times its then earnings
8. Later, while working at the family office of William Rosenwald, son of a founder of Sears Roebuck, he developed a risk aversion commensurate with the responsibility of managing another family’s legacy
9. Roebuck, taken ill as he was passing the basket in the church of which he was the shining light, died at midnight—a beautiful, peaceful death, they say, with his daughter reading the Bible aloud, and his lips moving in prayer
10. If the dam had not yielded where Roebuck stood guard, it must have yielded somewhere else, or might have gone all in one grand crash
11. He visits Roebuck and is deceived by the latter’s suavity
12. As a matter of fact, except in those personal relations which are governed by the affections, what is morality but the mandate of policy, and what is policy but the mandate of necessity? My criticism of Roebuck and the other “high financiers” is not upon their morality, but upon their policy, which is shortsighted and stupid and base
13. In his extremity he goes to Roebuck, to ascertain, if he can, if he too is in the plot to ruin him
14. W When Roebuck lived near Chicago, he had a huge house, a sort of crude palace such as so many of our millionaires built for themselves in the first excitement of their new wealth—a house with porches and balconies and towers and minarets and all sorts of gingerbread effects to compel the eye of the passer-by
15. But when he became enormously rich, so rich that his name was one of the synonyms for wealth, so rich that people said “rich as Roebuck” where they used to say “rich as Crœsus,” he cut away every kind of ostentation, and avoided attention more eagerly than he had once sought it
16. Roebuck had the same trick—only his dread, I suspect, was not the officers of the law, even of the divine law, but the many, many victims of his merciless execution of “the Lord’s will
17. Thus, where the rich of the Langdon sort are supercilious, the rich of the Roebuck sort are nervous and often become morbid on the subject of assassination as they grow richer and richer
18. Roebuck,” she said
19. It was astonishing how much every Roebuck in that circle, even the old lady, looked like old Roebuck himself—the same smug piety, the same underfed appearance that, by the way, more often indicates a starved soul than a starved body
20. Roebuck punctuated each paragraph in her series of petitions with a loudly whispered amen
21. And well he might, the old robber and assassin by proxy! The prayer ended and us on our feet, the servants withdrew, then all the family except Roebuck
22. When I, who have lived in the thick of the fight all my life, who have learned by many a surprise and defeat never to sleep except sword and gun in hand, and one eye open—when I have been trapped as Roebuck and Langdon have just trapped me—what chance would a woman like you have?”
23. I spent the night gnawing upon the ropes with which Mowbray Langdon and Roebuck had bound me, hand and foot
24. So far as I could see, it was absurd that cupidity was inciting Langdon and Roebuck against me
25. Certainly, conditions would result in which I could more easily get myself intrenched again; then, too, there would be a by no means small satisfaction in seeing Roebuck clawed and bitten in punishment for having plotted against me
26. It shows how badly Anita was crippling my brain, that not until I was almost at my office did it occur to me: “That was a tremendous luxury Roebuck indulged his conscience in last night
27. He respected Roebuck; Roebuck feared him
28. Roebuck did have some sort of a conscience, distorted though it was, and the dictator of savageries Galloway would have scorned to commit
29. “Roebuck has been commanded by his God,” he said, “to eject the free American labor from the coal regions and to substitute importations of coolie Huns and Bohemians
30. “And righteousness and Roebuck will prevail,” said I
31. He would never have consented to interfere with Roebuck as soon as I asked him to do it, unless there had been some powerful motive
