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...Wembley Exhibition. One cowboy, sitting on the hood of an automobile, yelled: "I want to rope a red-headed goil." He did, but she turned out to be a blonde, so he let her go. Every silk hat within a rope's length was regarded as legitimate prey and Londoners took it all with marked good humor. One body of men who quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo...
...like the ancients. Indeed, you are perhaps greater than them all. You found our country a prey to anarchy and on the verge of dissolution, and you have brought her safely to port and are preparing to unfurl her sails and steer her to new conquests and glories...
...falls a prey to the viperous, beguiling wife of a friend, who makes rendezvous with him in a questionable hotel, then entwines him in snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel burns down and the incandescent lady with it, perhaps from spontaneous combustion. The athlete then faces the problem of either enlightening his friend, driven frantic by his wife's inexplicable disappearance, or of leaving him ignorant, anguished but resting comfortably in his illusions about his wife...
This whole Prohibition business is a case of preventing the continuance of a disease in the future rather than an attempt to cure those unfortunates who have fallen prey to its ravages. It may take two or three generations, but eventually there will be no more parched throats in need of alcoholic lubrication. Those responsible for this law, so odious to the selfish and narrow minded, had in mind its effects on future generations. Mr. Leonard speaks of the great test of popular approval but does not seem to be able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary...
Justice: Edmond Lefebvre Du Prey...