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...course I didn't say that business is worse either," he went on. "Business is good. But that doesn't matter much. And I didn't say I started out by selling shoe laces, but I don't mind that. I don't mind anything in a spirit of fun. I never sold a shoe lace, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I had. I woundn't care if you said I got my start driving a garbage truck. That's just as honest a way to earn money as selling bonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Max Keezer, Optimist, Demands Retraction--Far From Dissatisfied With Life While Business Is Booming | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

...Loot: Women's stockings, 56 pairs; bathing suits, 5; gloves, 8 pairs; camera films, 141 packages; men's shirts, 45; overcoats, 5; shirt-waists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun, 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Elmira | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

Corrigan of Springfield carried individual honors in the Freshman meet. He led O'Neil by four seconds, his time being 19 minutes flat, but O'Neil broke a shoe-lace in the last half-mile and this was largely responsible for his defeat. The second Springfield man took fifth place and then after a long string of Crimson runners, three Springfield men took twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CROSS-COUNTRY MEN MAKE CLEAN SWEEP | 11/8/1924 | See Source »

...only a mild amount of drama but a good deal of Gloria Swanson and will therefore automatically acquire a million or more dollars. Mary Robert Rinehart wrote this one on the sound old theme of the Princess who loved the commoner. Against a purple background of mustachios and gold lace, Miss Swanson again demonstrates that she is quite properly one of the greater figures in the current cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 13, 1924 | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...tobacco, in a literary way. His style is as impersonal as the river, and as grave. But, on that unlaughing surface, a boat is reflected, slipping down the river under a moon like a golden poker chip; people on board eating, drinking, fighting, making love?ladies in lace pantaloons?bad men with aces in their cuffs?all dead, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Sep. 22, 1924 | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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