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Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...
Chains. Three mountainous acts labor and bring forth the mouselike aphorism: "I wonder if, after all, morality isn't just a matter of viewpoint? "A nice mother's heart is lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy...
...Indianapolis Firpo staggered under the first serious blow he has encountered in the U. S.-a $2,000 jolt in the pocketbook from Jack Druley, who promoted his exhibition with Joe Downey, of Columbus, O. The furry financier, who saw this wallop coming when Druley paid only half of his $4,000 guarantee before the gong clanged, tried to dodge it by sulking in his corner and refusing to box more than four rounds unless the balance forthcame. This sulkiness prompted more than 10,000 Indianapolitans (already infuriated by Governor McCray's decree that the go must...
...family wealth has hurt him in his public career. He complains that people say of him that there is no reason for his playing a fiddle, since he does not need the money. Others hold that he has got to the top not through musicianship, but through his pocketbook. The violinist states with a little emphatic bitterness that he has refused to take any financial aid from his family since the day that he first played in public. He insists that he is simply a musician as any other musician, and that he lives precisely as any other musician does...
Mason, who was returning from a dance, discovered the man in his room and immediately gave chase. Dropping a pocketbook containing money and a Corpona typewriter taken from room 133, the thief dashed from the building up Plympton Street and finally made his escape by darting into an alley back of the University Squash Courts. A careful search of the rooms in Westmorly revealed the fact that the robber had succeeded in making off with a large amount of money and several valuable pieces of jewelry...