Does Percy's dad own a diamond larger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel?

If so, why hasn't anyone else heard about it?

F. Scott Fitzgerald, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades, a small town on the

Mississippi River, for several generations.

John's father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest.

Mrs. Unger was known from hot box to hot bed, as the local phrase went, for her political

addresses, and young John T. Unger, who had just turned 16, had danced all the latest

dances from New York before he put on long trousers. And now, for a certain time, he was to be

away from home. That respect for a New England, he was to be away from home.

That respect for a New England education, which is the bane of all provincial places, which

drains them yearly of their most promising young men, had seized upon his parents.

Nothing would suit them but that he should go to St. Midas' school near Boston. Hades was too small to hold

their darling and gifted son. Now, in Hades, as you know, if you ever have been there,

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