the devil in the white city
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- HOLMES: "You see that man down there? Well, that’s my brother-in-law, and he has got no love for me, neither have I for him. Now, it would be the easiest matter for you to drop a stone on that fellow’s head while you’re at work and I’ll give you fifty dollars if you do."
- BURNHAM: " It will be very largely distributed throughout foreign countries, and is one of those trivial things by which these people will judge the artistic standard of the fair."
- HOLMES: "I last saw her about January 1, 1872, when a settlement of her rent was made. At this time she had announced not only to me, but to her neighbors and friends, that she was going away."
- HOTEL
- OLMSTED: "Let me remind you that the whole field of the Exposition has already come to be popularly called ‘THE WHITE CITY’... I fear that against the clear blue sky and the blue lake, great towering masses of white, glistening in the clear, hot, Summer sunlight of Chicago, with the glare of the water that we are to have both within and without the Exposition grounds, will be overpowering."
- BURNHAM: “First and foremost, Burnham knew, the fair had to be finished- He created the new post of director of functions and assigned Frank Miller to the job, giving him wide latitude to do what he could to boost attendance.”
- “Holmes listened. He sat peacefully in a chair by the wall that separated his office and the vault - This was the time he most craved. It brought him a period of sexual release that seemed to last for hours, even though in fact the screams and pleading faded rather quickly.”
- GEYER: “all the weary days and weeks of travel -toil and travel in the hottest months of the year, alternating between faith and hope, and discouragement and despair, all were recompensed in that one moment, when I saw the veil about to lift.”
- HOLMES: “In conclusion, I wish to say that I am but a very ordinary man, even below average in physical strength and mental ability, and to have planned and executed the stupendous amount of wrong-doing that has been attributed to me would not have been wholly beyond my power…”
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