Word: quirke
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...queer quirk is that after Bolivia and Paraguay did cease firing last week, they turned for mediation not to the Council of the League-which had spent $26,000 on words-but to the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation at Washington...
...sold two magazines, Smart Set and McClure's, to James R. Quirk...
...Without comment, William Randolph Hearst sold his McClure's and Smart Set to James R. Quirk, publisher of Photoplay Magazine and Opportunity...
...quirk of fate, the commander of the barracks, General Eleazar Lopez Contreras, had slept poorly and was up at an unusually early hour. . . . In the nick of time, just before the revolted battalion rushed up, General Contreras succeeded in organizing a defense to the barracks. Bullets spotted for two hours. . . . The Gomez...
Hearts Are Trumps. It develops that Arlette, delectable French mademoiselle (Vivian Martin), has married a count who proves to be an impostor. Since she married him for his title, this is inconvenient. She thereupon seeks out the genuine count and informs him that through some strange quirk of French law she is in reality married to him. He accommodatingly marries her and clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx...