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...newly opened restaurants which served a hearty meal for the trifling price of 20 centavos (5?). The restaurants proved to be "revolutionary cantonments." One, directly across from the Central Police Station, had especially big pineapples. Police eyes bulged at a letter mentioning that the chain-restaurant revolutionists planned "to kidnap the President of the Republic and other high officials...
...dogs mentioned, I guess. I have a little friend who has what Dad says is just "a mangy cur,'' another of the seven millions, but Bobby loves him just as much as I love my police dog, and it would be fun to see someone try to kidnap Bobby, or any of us, when "Rough Neck" is around...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...
Self-confident, ambitious, the young promoter found no financial scheme too big. With his potent friend Publisher Luke Lea of the Nashville Tennessean (the man who tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland as a Christmas present...
...become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap the two best players of the rival football team. The football players kidnap Chico and Harpo. Harpo and Chico saw their way out. Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot (see front cover). After Harpo has made one touchdown by scattering banana...