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...recently appeared off the Atlantic coast, one last week from Scotland hovering outside New Jersey, and one in the last few days from the West Indies sailing for Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very...
...Tuscarora, as trim a whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...
...spite of many faults "it is the Law" will provide an evening of entertainment to anyone who likes to steal away now and then and read a trashy, but hair-raising, murder story
...magic wand of a fairy, or told in the pages of a "Huckleberry Finn", is a totally different thing from the romance of camping out on a winter night with little to wear and less to eat. Boys play pirates for the fun of it, and steal their provisions from their mother's pantry; but when a boy camps under the steps of Russell Annex, and steals what he needs from the automobiles and college rooms near by, it is stretching the point to say that he is "playing pirate...
with doubles and a sacrifice placed Goode in a scoring position. A single by Gordon brought him home and the score was tied. A single by Conlon and a pretty double steal was too much for Wight, the Blue pitcher, so Chittenden went in to relieve him. But he had little success in stopping the onslaught and before the inning closed the Crimson nine had a three-run lead, which it was able to maintain until the eighth when Yale made her final threat...