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Three years ago Pavlov came to America. Confused by rush and roar he sat for a moment on a seat in Grand Central Station, Manhattan. A small handbag containing much of his money lay on the seat beside him and with characteristic absorption in the seething human laboratory around him, he forgot his worldly goods completely. When he rose to go, the handbag was gone. It had been taken from under his very nose. "Ah, well," sighed Pavlov gently, "one must not put temptation in the way of the needy...
...moment at which it had occurred, they sleepily made up their minds that no one who did not really want to drown would have chosen such a time for submergence. They discovered a photograph of a man, across which was scribbled an illegible endearment, in Mlle. Roseray's handbag; but no clue was offered when they perceived that the image was that of the proprietor of her night club. The Lexington Avenue Hospital refused to inform them as to whether Mlle. Roseray would recover, or how soon. These details the reporters were compelled to invent...
...attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall...
...fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot's handbag. The immediate cause of so much frustration is given in Claude's stuffy mother, two fat, fretful aunts and an uncle with cold-storage hands...
...simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...