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...Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...
...wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven...
...That is one wing of the city machine. The other consists . . . partly of such of the ostensible respectable elements of the communi- ty as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, dive keepers, criminals and harlots, because of the social and financial eminence of the Mellon name...
...cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into New York Harbor at the sight of the liners going...
...Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...