Word: ryley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DESIGNS IN SCARLET-Courtney Ryley Cooper-Little, Brown...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...
HERE'S TO CRIME-Courtney Ryley Cooper-Little, Brown ($2.75). Hairraising bill-of-particulars on U. S. crime, which Author Cooper calls biggest, best-paying U. S. industry, comparatively safe for the 3,500,000 engaged in it but a menace to the three out of four victims...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
...Sullivan. Two base hit--Shean, Tyler, Struck out--by Bacon 4, Curtis 3, Shean 5, Lee 1. Base on balls--off Bacon 2, Curtis 1, Shean 2, Lee 1. Double plays--Kellog to Eurenius to Holt. Gardiner to Eurenius. Reardon to Meechem. Roberts to Shean to Meechem. Umpires--Hoffman, Ryley. Time--2 hours and 15 minutes. Harvard '38 2 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 0--10 Andover...