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...told he was interested in the business of bringing in Chinese which I was told was very profitable and that a man called Joey Harper . . . had been passing through Los Angeles and while he was there in one of the cheaper houses he had for a neighbor an oil man whom I had to contact . . . and he told the oil man . . . that he ... was smuggling in Chinese, that they had been caught up with ... by a U. S. cutter and had to sink the boat with the Chinese and that he afterward went to Mr. Fleishhacker...
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...feel that I should add my tuppence ha' penny worth to the Cause of the koala [TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.] As a resident of Australia for 14 years I have had first-hand experience with the "Joey." The term "Teddy Bear" is an American importation and is not used "down under...
These engaging creatures are common sights to the summer vacationists at Phillip Island. They are protected by law and heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...
...when he kissed her on the back of her neck. The trouble was, he had forgotten to take a lighted cigar from his mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening out the affairs of an alcoholic cousin. This cousin had fallen into the clutches of a designing female who, according...