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...Pending the trials, however, all the clubs stayed open, did business indignantly. The raided proprietors accused their prosecutors of publicity-seeking. "Why do they pick on us," said one man, "when there are 22,000 speakeasies in the city where they rob you of your money and sell you poison liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Manhattan Coup | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Secret: On the island of Formosa one Cho Meika, a Korean youth of 21, took a dose of poison, six weeks ago, and instantly thereafter threw a dagger at Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Secret | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Poorly aimed, the dagger merely pinked his Highness' chauffeur. Pouncing police not only collared would-be assassin Meika but efficiently forced down his throat a successful antidote to the poison he had taken. Today he is in Tokyo, alive and awaiting justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Secret | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...income. And by a home in Florida I don't mean a duchy or principality with a kingly villa in the centre, like the Great Khan Teagle's estate, but a few humble acres on the Gulf and a simple cottage with bougainvillea and cocoanut palms and poison ivy around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misfit Cornell | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger of Fabienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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