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- noun United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)
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Examples
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The rise of golf's last great champion, Tiger Woods, was the closest American golf has come to Horatio Alger of late.
Golf's Little Prince, All Grown Up Matthew Futterman 2011
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A Saudi upbringingHe was born March 10, 1957, one of the 54 children of Mohammed bin Awdah bin Laden, an Arabic Horatio Alger who migrated from southern Yemen to Saudi Arabia sometime during the late 1930s or 1940s in search of opportunity.
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The home was the culmination of David Siegel's Horatio Alger story, from TV repairman to chief executive and owner of America's largest time-share company, Westgate Resorts, with more than $1 billion in annual revenue and $200 million in profits.
The Wild Ride of the 1% Robert Frank 2011
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The task ahead in the Individual Age is to create a Horatio Alger economy, a drive to rebuild the possibility of upward mobility that is at the heart of the American experience.
Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics Andrei Cherny 2011
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India is not a country overflowing with Horatio Alger stories.
Class Struggle: India's Experiment in Schooling Tests Rich and Poor Geeta Anand 2011
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That was a not terribly successful musical based on the Horatio Alger stories, but Mientus struck just the right note as the heroic young lad working his way up to success with pluck and good intentions.
Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) #1 Kissless, Crazy, Cartoonish! Michael Giltz 2011
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The entertainment industry is replete with Horatio Alger stories -- those who slept in cars, rebelled against the system, and danced with homelessness.
Ryan Leslie: The Case for College Ryan Leslie 2011
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The entertainment industry is replete with Horatio Alger stories -- those who slept in cars, rebelled against the system, and danced with homelessness.
Ryan Leslie: The Case for College Ryan Leslie 2011
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That the opportunity to strike it rich playing the lottery isn't any less reasonable than trying to raise yourself by your bootstraps in the old Horatio Alger tradition.
A Self-Inflicted Practical Joke Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"It's just that they believe in the whole Horatio Alger myth down here," said Mr. Booth.
The Perry Paradox Daniel Henninger 2011
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