Word: hellionâ
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...Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion???poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died of a dose, not an overdose, of chloral hydrate, not heroin. The distinction: heroin is an out law, habit-forming narcotic. Chloral hydrate is a non-habit-forming, much-used hypnotic...
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