"They're otherwise engaged; they're making money; they're enjoying the rays of late summer," Vick wrote.
Vick's article got him labeled anti-Semitic by American Jewish groups.
I doubt, though, that with so much on the line that Vick is thinking about anything so petty as revenge.
Before his jail stint, Vick was an exciting, messy player who never lived up to his potential.
The key is to lower expectations, and Vick was only raising them.
It is given in Vick's Magazine for September, 1880, with the items we have cited.
Mr. Vick tells us how it grew to be the fine flower now so highly prized.
We have seen how de Vick's clock contained, as it were, the germ of all our clocks.
The inventor is not known, but the escapement was used on de Vick's clock.
Do as I tell you, dear Vick, and I will vouch for a favorable termination.