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...assorted ghosts in the Wolf's Glen at midnight. Amid fearful shrieks, sights unholy, and much sulphurous stage-fire, seven bullets are cast. Max pockets them. He has not yet learned the necessity of caution in accepting gratuities from oily malefactors. Meanwhile the lovely Agatha is a prey to bad dreams and evil omens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Free Shooter | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...latest of these voyageurs is Captain S. C. Bullock, M. C. who recently returned to London with highly diverting accounts of barking vultures, fishes which leap out of the water on to necks of their prey, and other amazing fauna. Although treated with a most irreverent levity by the daily press, the Captain laid his papers before the Royal Geographical Society. A suspicion still lingers that that learned body is having its leg pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE, JR. | 3/1/1924 | See Source »

...fares the land to hastening ills a prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: An Oratorical Horse-trade | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

Saturday Night A shopgirl out for a blow, who seems to be derived from O. Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...Harvard horsemen, fresh from their surprising showing against Yale and the 101st Artillery, are the favorites for winning honors, as Yale found the Norwich poloists easy prey last Monday. Pell, Stranahan, and Kent will form the starting lineup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FACES NORWICH ON MAT AND IN SADDLE | 2/16/1924 | See Source »

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