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Scouts of the dog racket work in wealthy neighborhoods, observing dogs and little boys. They encourage the boys to bring them stray dogs at first, paying small sums. They then offer larger sums for household pets. Sometimes racketeers pose as A. S. P. C. A. officials, snatch up dogs when they are taken out for an airing. Dogs caught in one State are often sent to another State to be sold. Purchasers asking for an expensive dog in unscrupulous shops will almost always get what they want. The pet shop owner will have a scout steal one to order...
...York women-Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune and Mrs. Belle Israels Moskowitz. Anecdotes (safe, amusing ones) should be frequently dropped among newspaper men. Any specially quotable or laugh-getting phrase in the candidate's speeches should be noted for reiteration Newspapers snatch at good little bits for front-page "boxes." Any cartoonable physical characteristics or appurtenances should be emphasized-as were Roosevelt's grin and spectacles, Taft's girth, Dawes's pipe. Smith...
...Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch Miss Terry from Mr. Robertson is a sinister-appearing gaucho from the Argentine who goes by the name of Don Fernando (Clay Clements...
...throughout the world." It was learned that von Gronau actually had cabled from Iceland for permission to fly on westward. This request was immediately followed by a message saying he had taken off. At the captain's home in Warnemunde, headquarters of the school, Frau von Gronau, unable to snatch a moment's rest, despairingly ordered the telephone disconnected...
...Mace. Perhaps because no Congressman ever raped it, few U. S. citizens know that the House of Representatives has its distinctive Mace, topped by a silver American Eagle rampant. Should two Congressmen quarrel in the House, Sergeant-at-Arms J. G. Rodgers or his assistant would instantly snatch the Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within...