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Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
...broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter...
Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
...Dunlap, H. K. Behn Jr. '22 Hilda, Wilson Palmer '23 Mark Anthony, R. S. Flinn '23 Rufus Dubb, W. B. Leach Jr. '21 Arthur Dubb, D. T. Eaton '21 Barbara, H. E. Scott Jr. '23 Mrs. Gwendolyn Dubb, A. A. Fisk Jr. '22 Tai Lo, M. H. Dill 1S.L.A. Boozer Bill Buxton, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 Steve the Sticker, P. L. Cheney '21 The Ghost of-Captain Kidd, W. H. Kenyon Jr. '21 The Soothsayer, C. C. Macomber '22 The Rajah, P. O. Chalmers Unc. Sadie, L. B. Ellis...