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...From the Faker of the street to the Clergy of a temple or in a Church...
...Struck fullback, and Art Oakes and Bob Stuart the halfbacks. Boston is a power on defense, a mauling blocking back, a spine crackling line bucker. Oakes' speciality is hurling passes. Stuart and Struck will alternate on most of the running, Stuart being perhaps the more clusive, Struck the better faker...
Rich and stupid Lala Palooza set out vigorously to please all lovers of oldtime funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother...
...will be killed, strange things happen: his housekeeper, whom he had expected to be greedy for his money, turns out to try to fight for him. Others rush to his defense, old friends appear, his opponent is caught in some shabby trickery and Cripure saved. But the old faker, more startled at humanity's occasional goodness than at its depravity, ends his moment of peace, shoots himself...
Besides these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street...