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...Death by drowning" was the autopsy verdict on twelve-year-old Margaret Boylan-but she had not been in the water. The internal drowning was done by 110 jiggers of water she drank while playing "saloon" nine hours before...
...founder and U.S. director of the World Prohibition Federation, Brother Gaston is a spokesman for the W.C.T.U., the Anti-Saloon League and some 100 other temperance societies. He has kneeling space in the House Office Building by permission of his good friend Ulysses S. Guyer, dry Congressman from dry Kansas, who rises occasionally on the House floor to tack (so far, in vain) a prohibition joker on to other legislation...
...week's special at Harvard's Widener annex features another cut from the same old carcass--a saloon saga, no less, but without the equine and bovine props, without Dictrich, without even Sex, unless Gable bussing Turner during 30 long clinches demonstrates Love. To us it shows endurance,--on the audience's part. Besides, there is only one brief glimpse of Lana's limbs, and strangely enough, while all the other corny cliches are there, you won't find La Lana perching on the pianner as the boys in the background croon "Who Poured the Beer in Paddy's Coffin...
...doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking his chops in anticipation of an early feast after a long famine...
...some other people to make the book as effective as possible." Armenian Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), glossy darling of the '20s (The Green Hat), reached Manhattan by freighter from Britain, en route to Hollywood. Latest report on the other Armenian, William Saroyan: he plans to start a saloon modeled on his play, The Time of Your Life, on Manhattan's fly-blown Third Avenue...