Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...
...Road. Only a French journalist could chatter of White Slavery with such inoffensive skimming swiftness as Monsieur Albert Londres has attained in The Road to Buenos Ayres. The man is a magpie?a shrewd one?and a correspondent of Le Petit Parisien. When Argentine passport officials asked dapper Magpie Londres why he proposed to land at Buenos Aires, he blithely chirped: "Mes amis, I have come to see your souteneurs, your pimps...
...souteneur who sniffs about Europe until he finds a poor and not too homely "baggage," wins her by offering food if she is starving, buys her from debased parents if necessary, scrubs her up if she is filthy, and smuggles her out to the Argentine on a passport doctored or forged to show that the "baggage" is not "underweight" (i.e. under the age of consent...
...Chemist Harkins' researches have brought him world fame and the Willard Gibbs gold medal, a major honor in chemistry. He was chosen by a jury of twelve good chemists and true; the medal was presented by the Chicago section of the society. Atomic pictures are not his only passport to professional prestige. In various oil-and-water experiments he has earned the gratitude of oilmen. By pouring oil on water and letting the oil layer spread out to the thickness of one molecule he has been able to measure the exact size of the molecule and calculate the force...
When it was seen that the Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe continued to supply Debauchee Zubkov with funds and seemed to dote upon his antics, the German Government proceeded recently to expel him from the Fatherland on the ground that he has no valid passport. Since then he has been in Brussels, Belgium, still wineing and womening without stint, but under threat of momentary expulsion. Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria-where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain...