Word: ferrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title down in large letters and ponder over it, you will probably ferret out the significance. It is a story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late...
...Broadway, Manhattan, a crowd of men and boys, "whooping, yelling, laughing," gave chase to a "small white animal hopping and leaping along the pavement." One Griebe, patrolman, dove for the animal, clutched him with his buckskin gloves, took him to the station house. Experts said the animal was a ferret...
...fact, she may be secretly annoyed. Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep The Stupidities in the headlines. If he is successful, the patient public parts with the aforesaid...