Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour, and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors of half-moon parlors. Photomaton Inc. looks for lively trade from police departments, commutation ticket offices, license bureaus-wherever quick recording and identification are needed. Meantime Inventor Jo-sepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from penniless Russian immigrancy, will act consistently. Half...
Prince Dolgorukovo has been resident in Paris since the Red Revolution, has sunk to penury. Riches indisputably his were to be had for the digging, in Russia. By great good fortune he was able to buy a forged Russian passport from a Soviet official in Paris. Fifty per cent of the to-be-dug-up-treasure was all the official asked, and he entered Russia with Prince Dolgorukovo to insure good faith...
...gift of half the world. It is all the fashion in these times for Queens as well as other women to go about with the twelve pound look firmly pressed upon their still not unlovely faces. Hence to marry a lady of title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must have careers, nowadays, or their bobbed haired ladies, what with their books and their lectures will quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married...
When she attempted to leave Russia, however, the frontier officials insisted that she was a Russian, despite her U. S. passport and the fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed...
...here say that justice has been thrown to the four winds and two big criminals set free. . . . "But I regret to say that it seems that a rich man can not be convicted in courts established by the Harding-Coolidge administration. If a man has money, he has the passport to his freedom. . . . "I thank God that there is a place in the Republic where the representatives of the people can express their opinion and make known their convictions without being awed or intimidated by the fear that the court could punish them for what it might call contempt...