Word: conning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
...pencils must always be of assorted sexes, and always seminude; 2) He will pencil no one privately, though hundreds of prominent people, unwilling to endure the public ordeal, have sent him blank checks for a private consultation. He always refuses, returning the checks blank. Recently the Austrian Government, con- vinced after prolonged investigation that the Pencil Man is no cheat, rebated him two-thirds of certain taxes which he had paid in ignorance of a clause in the law permitting him to claim exemption...
...immediately demanded Dr. Magnes's resignation from the University. Said The New Palestine, U. S. official Zionist weekly: "Does Dr. Magnes imagine that he imbues the Arab leaders . . . with a sense of peace and responsibility when, as the fruit of their blood-thirsty lawlessness, he makes offers and con- cessions?" The Day, Manhattan Yiddish daily, decried Dr. Magnes's suggestions as "futile . . . engendered by hysteria." Replying, Chancellor Magnes warned: "It is impossible to continue as heretofore. . . . Without this realization the Jewish public the world over is bound to suffer disappointment and disillusionment in its hopes with regard...
ROMANCE OF THE RIO GRANDE (Mary Duncan)?Chili con carne in the manner of Edith Wharton, beautifully photographed...
...Palmer, center; Tom Taylor, fullback, and Bob Hall, quarterback. Hoot Ellis had a recurrence of his knee injury, and was taken out, but will probably by session in action against the Crimson. Jin Stewart, substitute guard for Captain Greene, sustained several bad bruises and Truxton Hare was battered up con siderably. Neither of these two will probably work out with the rest of the Blue squad for several days...