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...Charles Scribner Jr., wife of the Manhattan publisher, summering in Massachusetts, riding her Irish hunter, saw a farm horse, stung by a bee, go dashing away dragging a hay rake. Mrs. Scribner gave chase, followed the runaway up hill and down dale, around curves so sharp that one of them sent the hay rake zooming off by itself. Agile, she caught and subdued the horse...
...primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago's civilian Crime Commission engaged some months ago to do what State's Attorney Crowe and Mayor Thompson were leaving undone...
...Noble Rake...
...rake" was Lord Charles Mohun, the original of the villain in Thackeray's Henry Esmond. Illustrated from old prints...
...next book to be published by the Press and it will, be followed by such works as "Sit Thomas Malory" by Edward Hicks. "The Commonwealth and Restoration Stage" by Leslie Botson. Associate Professor of English in New York University. "John Gay's London" by William Henry Irving: "A Noble Rake the Life of Charles. Fourth Lord Mohun." by Robert S. Forsythe: "The Lance of Justice, a Semi-centennial History of the Legal Aid Society. 1876 to 1926' by John MacArthur Maguire, Professor of Law in Harvard University...