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...gob staggered drunkenly along a Cherbourg quay. French police espied him, attempted to hand him over to the U. S. S. Pittsburgh's police; but his cries for help attracted the attention of six of his mates, who successfully pummeled the police and rescued the unsteady gob. The matter was reported to Vice Admiral Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...Shanghai, shipping remained tied up by strikers who are being directly subsidized from Peking. Shops and banks were open. Excitement entered the picture when a U. S. gob shot a Chinese who was about to attack a municipal policeman from behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Chaos | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...which seem to result from the failure of the author to think out his situation clearly. It is one of those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing...

Author: By F. L. Allen ., | Title: COLLEGE MUST DEVELOP MEN EAGER TO WRITE | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

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