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...coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities Corp. ("The Whiskey Trust") put itself and its surplus stocks in his hands. Under President Kessler the "Whiskey Trust" had a brief period...
Shortly after Repeal Julius Kessler returned to Manhattan with his bull terrier Roxy and his bullfinch Dickie, there passed his 80th birthday. Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year...
Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...
...troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese Ambassador to the Chinese Government...
...figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry's body in the gutter. Paul...