Word: blackjacked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of the first party, whose four men all perished, has often been told. Last year's relief expedition, headed by Harold Noice, brought back only the Eskimo woman, Ada Blackjack. It left on the island Charles Wells and 13 Eskimos. Nothing has been heard from them since, and Lomen will discover whether they have survived or whether they met the fate of the first luckless colonists. Besides this altruistic motive, Lomen has the inducement of obtaining Stefansson's share in the Wells party's fur catch. A trip to Australia prevents Stefansson from going himself...
...sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives the white hand of the more bewitching of his two sweeties...
...speaker was General John J. Pershing. It is hard to think of military men except as experts in their trade; just such a feeling accounts for the tradition that no professional solider be appointed Secretary of War. What are we to think then, when a fighting man like "Blackjack" Pershing says: "The world does not seem to learn from experience. It would appear that the lessons of the last six years be enough to convince everybody of the danger of nations striding up and down armed to the teeth. Ours is not an aggressive nation. We want no territory...