Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some $1,500,000 over the counter to dream...
...than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed with an indisputable destiny, perhaps, but there is no reason why, in the distribution of examination papers, meticulous thumb-counting should take the place of quick availability. October, the month of November hour examinations...
Within 48 hours the Woman's National Committee for Hoover was talking over the telephone from Manhattan to Hot Springs, Va. Out came another quotation: "I am going to cast my vote for Mr. Hoover because he's a dry"-Glenna Collett, three-time women's golf champion of the U. S., four-time Eastern Women's champion, twice champion of Canada...
Plastered in Paris. Guffaws will grow among those people who pronounce it "moom pitcher," who view this bad piece about a kleptomaniac ex-soldier at the American Legion convention in Paris. The star is Sammy Cohen, cast as Samuel Nosenbloom...
...then a profane and exciting melodrama, though one which retains, despite the severe directorial auspices of George Abbott, many touches of Jim Tully's soapy sentimentality. Richard Bennett does most of the acting; Joan Bennett, his daughter and the sister of famed Constance Bennett, is beautiful and well cast as the 16-year-old unfortunate. The truest thing in Jarnegan is the performance, provided by Wynne Gibson, of a dipsomaniac star arriving at the peak of her intoxication; hearing noises in the night, she surmises that the owls are after her; with puzzled insolence she abuses an extra girl...