Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender and to be severe on the individual engaged in the liquor business. But that of course is what courts do anyway and it is submitted that there is no remedy if a particularly "dry" judge should visit a youthful first offender with the maximum penalty...
...means exhaust his opportunities; he has a quantity of other excursions to make before getting back to the familiar Massachusetts dews and damps. They should be all finished in good order by Monday, however, and the Vagabond can then promise that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while his physical feet will probably touch no soil more remote than Cape Cod for many months to come, he will be fit to match tales with the most hardened globe-trotter and at the expense of far less energy...
...wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub...
...cigarette girl, who has always wanted to be a dancer, crashes through in the final act when the star falls to appear and she's really much better anyway, as we knew she would be. The same young lady is the high light of the evening, being extremely pleasant to look upon and quite in evidence most of the time. She also performs several Spanish dances, clicking castanettes and swinging about in the traditional fashion. If you're an expert on such dances you'll know more about how good they are than...
Murder. Some of the Park Central's guests thought they heard a shot. A taxi-driver thought he heard another cab backfire. Anyway, Rothstein was found inside a locked service entrance on the ground floor of the Park Central, staggering, with a bullet in his groin. He declined to say where or by whom he had been shot. He soon died. Outside the hotel, a discharged gun was found, dented by a fall of perhaps three stories...