“His business lost favor with the public, and his lunch counter chain was bankrupt by 1923.”

“In short, we are completely broke and bankrupt. Now, all we can do is sit and wonder what to do and patiently wait if anyone chooses to send any kind of help our way.”

“There's virtue to such curiosity and research, but it could also leave an exhausted writer holding an emotionally bankrupt manuscript in calloused hands.”