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...trade. During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals: fraudulent attorney, flimflamming explorer, dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about the disdain he felt for the suckers he was trimming...
Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin...
From this point on, the plot of The Young Visiters fairly races. Amiable Lord Clincham smuggles Mr. Salteena into Buckingham Palace under the alias "Lord Hyssops" and introduces him to the Prince of Wales, who is dressed in "a small but costly crown" and surrounded by "ladies of every hue...
Strange Allies. President Baumhogger and associates then reopened a chapter in Green's career that he would like to forget-a stormy 16 months when he was president of Minneapolis & St. Paul's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. Green had won that job after threatening a proxy fight...
Patrons of the College's central kitchen may have been eating crow, under the alias "chicken salad," during fall and spring migration seasons, it was learned over the weekend.