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...vault came a faint tinkle of breaking glass. The yeggs gagged, struggled for breath, staggered out of doors, undetected but quite through with safecracking for that night. Next morning, the bank officials beamed with delight at the evidence of foiled foul play and the efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipment-jimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch - a gas mask of exceedingly high...
...flask holding six fluid...
...also denounced "the six greatest evils" of the day. These, according to his enumeration, are: "Divorce, race suicide, the public dance halls ('some dances,' said he, are 'soul-killing in the extreme'), the narcotic-drug habit, the hip-pocket flask, and the automobile-brothel...
Jack Dempsey: It was reported that my father, Hyrum Dempsey, of Salt Lake City, was fined $50 after entering a plea of guilty to a charge of having mixed highballs with liquor from a pocket flask...
...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...