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...wrote starry-eyed reviews. Speculators promptly invested in an eight-week buy. But here & there a cold fish issued coldly from the playhouse, willing to admit that it had been a pleasant enough evening, but nothing more. In any case, it had been all about a lovable old codger (Dudley Digges) who saved his little orphaned grandson from the clutches of a prim, pious, perfectly terrible maiden aunt by chasing imminent Death (known as Mr. Brink) up an apple tree and keeping him there...
...rich oil estate. Last week, in Los Angeles, frustrated, 50-year-old Mrs. Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth is illustrated by photographs of Indian Barnett before and after marriage. In one set he is a dirty old codger living in a squalid hut. In the other he has a shave, a new coat, a mansion, Anna Laura Lowe. Her conclusion: "Jackson Barnett was the smartest and best one of the Indians. He married better and lived better than all the other Indians combined. His eyesight, hearing, memory and intelligence...
...many of his contemporaries in early 19th Century Philadelphia, Stephen Girard was an old codger in an unfashionable full-skirted coat and pigtail who frequently jostled his way to High Street Market to sell baskets of eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists...
...Curaçao, only 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It was no laughing matter. The fugitives were the children, grandchildren, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins of dead Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez of Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone who knew Venezuela knew that Gómezes do not give up without a fight. The last time a serious revolution threatened Venezuela, exiled revolutionists raided the fortress of Willemstad, sailed off with most of its small arms...
...Norris turns Communist his young friend is delighted. But when he discovers at last that he has been made a tool in an extremely nefarious scheme by which Mr. Norris is trying to sell German Communist secrets to the French secret service, our hero sees through the old codger at last. For old times' sake he helps Mr. Norris make his getaway, wishes himself a good riddance...