A slow smile was spreading itself over the strong face of the railway magnate as he listened.
In the fulness of time the tramping magnate who had been so crushingly out-generalled in his own chosen field came to stand before the big man, who was still quietly smoking in the sham-Sheraton arm-chair.
Gantry was coming down the avenue of banana-trees with the ice he had taken so much time to procure, and the lumbermagnate rose reluctantly.
Again the railroad magnate rested his arms on the table-edge.
I couldn't get him to say anything with any sense in it," said the lumber magnate grittingly.
The magnate smiled inwardly when he remembered that he had given Gantry, the division traffic manager of the Transcontinental, a quiet hint to look up one Evan Blount, a young lawyer, on his next visit to Boston.
Phone him and tell him I'm here," said Blount; and in due time the lumbermagnate made his appearance.
The magnate had offered Miss Wallen a permanent position and a good salary in his own office, and marvelled at her refusal.
Sutter, a Swiss of American proclivities, was the magnate of the Sacramento region, whence he dispensed a liberal hospitality to the Pathfinder's party.
Ben Holladay was themagnate of the plains during the early sixties.
Indeed when a college magnate takes the trouble to be polite, there is no man more splendidly courteous.
Before two years had passed away more than one county magnate had sought her hand in marriage, while many wondered at her evident determination to remain single.
But the food-trust magnateneither answered nor showed himself, being engaged in a house-to-house canvass for the pittance of provender that would keep him alive.
The food-trust magnate was fully clad, although his clothing showed signs of much hard usage.
It's easy being a railroad magnate when you know how.
Who knows what that mad railway magnate may take it into his head to do?
The trust magnate did not fail to take note of the war-like movements of the soldiers.
In truth, the railway magnate presented a sorry spectacle.
The coal baron and the food-trust magnate continued to dwell upon their harrowing experiences with various degrees of intensity until a command for silence came from a word-box somewhere around us.
In the general joy at finding the ex-railway magnate restored to reason the matter of the imperial exchequer was temporarily lost sight of.
Without another word to Meigs I went over and assisted in getting the food trust magnate into a more comfortable position.
The manner of this magnate to the two subalterns, therefore, was just a trifle independent.
The time was close at hand when a Danish magnate was to demonstrate that he preferred the utter ruin of his country to any abatement of his own personal dignity.
Charles Scarburgh or Scarborough was the chief magnate of the Eastern Shore, and a member of the governor's council.
There is, by the way, another princely magnate in the district, and I ought perhaps to introduce him to my readers, because he represents worthily a new type.
When she returned to Petersburg both the magnateand the prince were there, and both claimed their rights.
She provoked the jealousy of the elderly magnate and told him what she had told her other suitor; that is, she put the matter so that the only way for him to obtain a right over her was to marry her.
For this astute lawyer the "Standard Oil" magnate has something akin to terrified admiration.
Don Guillermo Iturbi y Moncada, the magnate of the South, owned a small schooner, and placed it at the disposal of the priests.
Diego Estenega, the Spanish magnate of the North, whose ranchos adjoined Fort Ross, and who was financially interested in the Russian fur trade, soon became an intimate of the Rotscheff household.
After he died, through the manipulations of an unworthy village magnate named Gasper Farrington, his widow and son found themselves at the mercy of that heartless schemer, who held a mortgage on their little home.
The quick-witted, keen-eyed special passenger was certainly getting railroad training so coveted by his magnate father.
The wooden case was brought to the table and the magnate unwrapped it with his own fat fingers.
The motion picture magnate used his weekly news-sheet (produced in innumerable theatres) to advertise his loss by a production of the missing picture.
Oh yes, yes, I know you now,” said the magnate dully.
The strangely softened magnate sighed and his tired eyes swept the sea.
The boy had recognized the shipping magnatefrom pictures of him that he had seen in the papers.
Jack, the thought of the son of the magnate coming suddenly to him.
And so, burdened with a bottle of the “Rheumatiz and Gout Specific,” and with the memory of the first person he had ever met who was not willing to accept his bounty, the shipping magnate stepped ashore from the Venus.
The shipping magnate was returning home, as he had said, from a dinner party on Staten Island.
Jack had heard nothing more from Mr. Jukes and deemed that the magnate had utterly cast him off.
And this new tyranny has for effect to enrich the trust magnate at the expense of the whole nation.
The following is told of a late railway magnate and a prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
Said the magnate to the lawyer--"I want you to show that this law is unconstitutional.
Scarcely able to credit their sight, the villagers saw the magnate of Legonia led forth from the Golden Rule Cannery in the custody of strangers.
The flabby face with its sagging folds of pink skin, the snake-like eyes and the long Roman nose could not have been the inheritance of any other than the magnate of Legonia.
On Sunday this magnate wore a yellow diamond pin and sat in his shirt-sleeves.
No financial magnate this time--rather queer, I thought--that she missed that part of my personality.
