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...greater in that the stagnation which he predicts seemed very near and real a short seven months ago. His vision has the greater authenticity in that it contains little that is incredible and nothing that is, to us, inconceivable. In short, the work is a serious attempt, unmarred by riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline, the endings of our present paths and the new and better ways which mankind may tread, provided only that mankind has the intelligence, the will, and the courage. As a book showing a possible transition from this immediate world to a conceivable Utopia...
...best defense is a gallant offense such as libel. If Capone claims the reward from Colliers', Mr. Morgan, by putting the government on one of its fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year's eve on the Loop. But for the present, while the injured Kingfish and the tottering financier are still in the public eye, the pretender to the medal is in jail, and the modal itself is locked for good in the Museum of the American Numismatic Society...
Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...
...Lynn the following night. At the bowlers' dinner, however, the act had not developed far, before the dancers were located in the laps of some of the carpenters and electricians. When the jacks of all trades grew tired of this the ladies exhibited risque contentious, which met with riotous applause from the floor...
...House the country for a few weeks thought it had a hero in Georgia's Crisp, sales tax advocate. But the riotous defeat of that legislation and the subsequent defeat of its sponsor for the Senate fogged the Crisp name...