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Aa big book pdf1/5/2024 It was fun to carom around the exclusive course which had inspired such awe in me as a lad. Golf permitted drinking every day and every night. Liquor caught up with me much faster than I came up behind Walter. We went at once to the country, my wife to applaud while I started out to overtake Walter Hagen. There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes. There were many unhappy scenes in our sumptuous apartment. The remonstrances of my friends terminated in a row and I became a lone wolf. My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing all day and almost every night. Everyone spent in thousands and chattered in millions. There was loud talk in the jazz places uptown. Drink was taking an important and exhilarating part in my life. ![]() The great boom of the late twenties was seething and swelling. My judgment and ideas were followed by many to the tune of paper millions. The exercise of an option brought in more money, leaving us with a profit of several thousand dollars for that year.įor the next few years fortune threw money and applause my way. At the end of it, my reports to Wall Street procured me a position there and the use of a large expense account. We covered the whole eastern United States in a year. That was the last honest manual labor on my part for many a day. I had had some success at speculation, so we had a little money, but we once worked on a farm for a month to avoid drawing on our small capital. We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle, the sidecar stuffed with tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial commission should be appointed. I had developed a theory that most people lost money in stocks through ignorance of markets. I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and I decided to go anyway. I rightly imagined that they would some day have a great rise. It went into certain securities, then cheap and rather unpopular. Living modestly, my wife and I saved $1,000. Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but cut me to ribbons. Business and financial leaders were my heroes. The inviting maelstrom of Wall Street had me in its grip. We had long talks when I would still her forebodings by telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived.īy the time I had completed the course, I knew the law was not for me. Though my drinking was not yet continuous, it disturbed my wife. At one of the finals I was too drunk to think or write. Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course. Why not I? I studied economics and business as well as law. Many people lost money-but some became very rich. My work took me about Wall Street and little by little I became interested in the market. I took a night law course, and obtained employment as investigator for a surety company. I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of my battery given me a special token of appreciation? My talent for leadership, I imagined, would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I would manage with the utmost assurance. Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, I went home at last. My attention was caught by a doggerel on an old tombstone: In time we sailed for “Over There.” I was very lonely and again turned to alcohol. ![]() I forgot the strong warnings and the prejudices of my people concerning drink. I was part of life at last, and in the midst of the excitement I discovered liquor. Here was love, applause, war moments sublime with intervals hilarious. WAR FEVER ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic. ![]() Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Professionals.PHP with Housing for Health Professionals.
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