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Hubert the Arch Hippo usually dwelt in the Umzimvubu River, occasionally, however, foraging over the land. Last week Hubert was wading and snorting in the Keiskama River when some sacrilegious native, scofflaw Afrikander or bloodthirsty American crept up and slew the beast with a bullet over each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Death Comes to the Arch-Hippo | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Union. In Houston, Texas, the Women's Christian Temperance Union closed its convention with resolutions against all critics of President Hoover, scofflaw cinemas, hip flasks. It warned both parties to choose Bone-Dry Candidates in future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Drys Gird | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...seems the theater racketeers have discovered that speculation does not pay--if everybody speculates. So the song is ended. But they may, alast find out under the new system that when everyone is honest, a single scofflaw can gambol with considerable profit in the green pastures of hey-hey. Which leads to the conclusion that only if there is honor among theives can the public not "be damned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HIGHER THE FEWER | 4/17/1930 | See Source »

...King is a banker and a citizen of Quincy. He gained prominence two years ago when he ran a contest for the most cutting name for a breaker of the prohibition law. "Scofflaw" was the winning word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEEK WILL HEAD STUDENT COUNCIL | 10/6/1925 | See Source »

Yours for stabbing awake the conscience of the Scofflaw, and the general conscience too, DELCEVARE KING...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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