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Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Tim | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

NEVADA-Zane Grey-Harpers ($2.00). Jim Lacy, wild hombre alias "Nevada," chased wild horses through an earlier volume, Forlorn River, sacrificed love and happiness for his "pard," and disappeared. The present story follows him to the wicked mining town where he had made his name notorious for gambling and drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rustling Outfit | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

THE New English Dictionary defines the maggot as "a nonsensical on perverse fancy, a crotchet", and Miss Warner employs the word as a titular alias for the sprite who deprived the genteel and clerical Mr. Fortune, prepared to devote his declining years to ministering to the spiritual needs of the...

Author: By R. T. Sherman ., | Title: MR. FORTUNE'S MAGGOT. By Sylvia Thompson Warner. Viking Press, New York, 1927. $2.00 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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