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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wong is a Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
...Lack of spirit, did I say? Spirit, in the language of the barracks and of the dormitories and the language of these is quite similar), is nothing but a four-letter word meaning intestinal fortitude, an ugly little word known as "guts...
...enclose herewith part of a letter from Ray Potter, one of my former roommates at Yale...
Another compliment to the man whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...
Michigan's chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now comply with the spirit-of-the-law and abstain from liquor...