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That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...
...kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure carried its own marks of perpetually since the outraged townspeople, in session assembled during the summer vacation, summarily--and the students claimed unconstitutionality--deprived the latter of the suffrage...
...henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...
Said the Manhattan's captain of the Williams invention: "Greatest boon to navigation since radio...
...wages of office and factory workers east of the Urals will be raised from 10% to 30% by their all-potent employer, the State. Fishermen on Soviet Far East coasts will get 20% more for their catch. All this effective Jan. i, 1934. Moreover-and this was the greatest boon of all-the obligation of Soviet peasants to sell most of their grain to the State at miniscule prices was suspended east of the Urals by Dictator Stalin, for ten years in the case of collective farms, for five years in the case of private farmers. In effect...