Weigall in Boom in Florida (Lane, 10s. 6d.) says it
Without doubt Mr. Weigall has suffused his book with just the right atmosphere, especially when seen through the bottom of a glass ; on every other page or so "I'll say" figures force- fully, and, as the author went to the Everglade State to make money in the great land boom of 1924-5, he found many advisers who could tell him "the way' to whack the bucks into a pile" or, as a variant (though this, of course, in New York before he had headed south) to "spray de bucks alx?it." He does not seem 'to have cortalled many Floridian boom-bucks, but he has Succeeded *in producing a picture of the feVerish, • blatant, restless and vulgar life of Miami and other towns in Florida, as contrasted with nature's dreaming beauty, shining beaches, and glorious sunshine. In the course of the book the reader can savour and possibly enjoy the presentment of "the 100 per cent. hell-bent young business man of America." -
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