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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life readers, pleased, anticipated further diversions in the reorganized Life which is to appear...
...vexed when she learned that her 18-year-old son, spry Samuel Colt, was wanted by the police department of Manhattan. After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine of $25 was imposed...
...Bridgeman revealed that Oath Swearer Collard would be compulsorily retired as "unfit for high command,"* whereas the two officers convicted of technical misconduct in complaining against him will receive fresh commands at sea, "as soon as vacancies appear." A fresh sensation stirred when one of the officers slated for reinstatement, Commander H. M. Daniel, abruptly resigned from the Royal Navy, last week, and joined the staff of the newspaper which has been loudest in his defense, the Daily Mail...
...delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will feel inclined to imitate Mr. Heilner's experiments if anything resembling a shark should appear off the shore...
Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove...