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...kowtowing and howling for mercy. The "judges" imposed and actually collected "fines" up to $10,000 Mex. ($2,500) for the "crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...Detroit, a policeman arrested Peter De Peter on suspicion, but could not determine what there was queer about him. At police headquarters Peter De Peter was fingerprinted; amazed policemen saw he had on each hand five fingers & a thumb, promptly released him. Peter De Peter said his father was ten-fingered and twelve-toed, and so was his son, 15, until he had the extra fingers cut off. He works his ten fingers nimbly at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant...
...Lenin is prankish Sir Oswald Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...
Chico impersonates a tough Italian, Zeppo makes friends with a pretty girl. Presently the boat docks and the Marx Brothers are faced with the problem of getting off without passports. This they try and fail to do by singing like Maurice Chevalier. Harpo, most furious at having his queer purposes interrupted, leaps on the desk of a passport inspector. Grinning wildly, he tears up thousands of important papers, stamps the pate of the chief passport inspector with a rubber stamp. The Marxes go to a party. They have contracted simultaneous alliances with two rival gangsters aboard ship. At the party...
...young once. These letters, a record of an amazingly tender affair of the heart, bear witness to their protracted youth. Published not only with Shaw's permission but with his connivance, the book has a foreword by Shaw, numerous explanatory notes. The story the letters tell was a queer affair...