Word: innocentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just arrived in the hotel sitting room for a repertory season, the actors rehearse a tear-jerking scene setting forth the fact that the illegitimate child of one by the other is dead. A servant girl, unnerved by such talk, blats out the information that she has in fact had...
The plot: A real Baron Munchausen, sailing into New York Harbor, cannot appear because he has heard that the husband of his mistress is on board. He exchanges identities with the ship's tailor, Jack Pearl, who promptly takes on a manager, Jimmy Durante. In a rain of ticker...
*Federal Convict No. 14,431, writing in the October issue of Atlanta Penitentiary's Good Words, expressed an oldtimer's resentment of modern criminals and kidnappers. Why, he asked, should "longtimers" continue "to remain imprisoned and be classified with the racketeer of the present day? There are a...
The Widener Reading Room is never used after 6 o'clock, and the elevator leading up from the basement is never used at all. Surely the Cambridge government would not grudge the tax-free library the innocent, helpful night-duty of housing some student cars.
Returning to a subject which it has often skirted but never actively attacked, the Radical Socialist Party of France has now pledged itself to a thorough investigation of the international arms and munitions racket. They are especially aroused over the activities of the Schneider-Creusot firm. The current charge against...