Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything's Jake, a new comedy by genial Don (The Old Soak) Marquis, is, like most of his writings, pervaded with the persuasive odors of the barroom. It concerns the adventures of Jake Smith, wealthy Long Island 'legger, with his wife, daughter and three bleary cronies on an...
In Düsseldorf the sagacious Berlin detectives had in full swing last week two amazing ruses to trap the members of a Crime Club* supposedly patterned on the notorious 18th Century Cercle des Amis du Crime described by the "Marquis" de Sade. In the first place, the detectives arranged...
In cosmopolitan and perverse Berlin, Sadism and kindred anomalies are well known and understood. The Sadist is recognized as an individual who commits acts of cruelty upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective...