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Scarcely had Mrs. Rumsey closed her checkbook and departed, when the S. S. Aquitania nosed up to its pier and debarked mother-in-law Mrs. L. D. Rumsey with a $200 traveling case belonging to Daughter-in-Law Rumsey, which she failed to declare. The case was seized. Back went Daughter-in-Law Rumsey to pay more penalties...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
...joint thought and decision. It is thought that O. P. usually takes the lead, but if O. P. may speak for M. J. so may M. J. speak for O. P. With two minds made up, they are difficult to swerve. It is gossiped that even their personal checkbook is a joint affair, either signature being valid...
Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...
Free Service? A flapper with twelve one-dollar-bills and a rouged smile should not be entitled to a fancy checkbook, according to banker C. W. Allendoerfer of Kansas City, who fulminated against the length to which "free service" is being carried by banks. He declared that country correspondents who want theatre tickets bought for them should be humored; but that a line must be drawn somewhere. Accounts must be examined to discover whether they are really profitable...