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...boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back...
...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
BOOKS of travel, and, more especially, those little volumes of impressionistic essays on foreign lands, are often more revealing of the author's personality than of the strange lands and queer people he meets on the way. Here, we are amused and interested in Mr. Guedalla's skill as a virtuoso of the pen. As always, he is witty and charming; and with penetrating analysis he gives a lucid picture of the South American scene. But the fact that he is writing about South America is only incidental. It is the charming Mr. Guedana we are interested in, and insofar...
London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike Sam Johnson, who occasionally winked (as when he defined "lexicographer" as "a harmless drudge") and who occasionally nodded into Latinic somnolence ("Network-anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"), editors of the S. O. E. D. are always serious but try hard...
Night before he had bumped into an old acquaintance, also named Smith, had spent a queer evening with him. Smith II, though rich beyond avarice's dreams, though magnetic to women, was also, it appeared, contemplating suicide. Smith I was too intent on his own plans to pay much attention to him. Next morning he methodically carried them out; but just when he was about to take the fatal step a storm struck, and instinctively he tried to save the boat. By the time he had succeeded he was too exhausted to kill himself that day. Furthermore, he stumbled...