Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparations, economic "Emperor of Europe," aged 34: "I rarely dance. But my wife was declared last week at an elite and informal dancing contest in Berlin the best Charleston dancer present. Despatches rumored my vexation at the alleged ribald shout of a U. S. youth: 'Ray for you, Mrs. Gilbert! I'd like t' see y' "Black Bottom...
Stephen and Sally later eloped, settling in Nassau, whence Stephen sailed over the world in the Chantrell & Chantrell ships, and whither Cordelia went, still a fierce dark beauty in her mid-twenties, as The Messenger, President Jeff Davis's special agent, to discover what Yankee spy was betraying Confederate munitions smugglers. When this spy proved to be Preston Baimbridge, as faithful to his Northern cause as was Cordelia to her love for him, the second pistol shot was the only thing possible, fired by Preston Baimbridge into his own head...
...shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing The Kid, that he might persuade householders to buy from him window glass insurance...
...French police, calmly industrious, continued to investigate. They discovered documents which appeared to brand Colonel Garibaldi as an agent provocateur employed by the Italian Secret Service. His role has been to pose as an anti-Fascist and thus keep his employers informed of what plots were going forward among the Italian and Spanish foes of Dictators Benito Mussolini and Primo de Rivera...
Prejudice! Graft! My tactics a bombshell! Prosecution frightened! My case is over! These were the jubilant cries last week of Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, 49, unofficial Baptist Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself (TIME, July 26 et seq.). The now deceased had ventured to expostulate with the parson for maligning D. E. Chipps' friend, the Mayor of Fort Worth. Pastor Norris, who has since been at liberty on bail, preaching weekly to vast throngs, has now secured a change of venue...