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...Richard denounced the bordellos on physical, patriotic and economic as well as moral grounds. They were responsible for the sharp upsurge in venereal disease: only three doctors serviced the 7,000 prostitutes. They were deep-dyed collaborationist: they had accommodated German soldiers by the truckload, provided the Gestapo with stool pigeons, paid tribute to the most hated Vichyites, including Pierre Laval. They spawned black marketeers. They viciously monopolized 6,000 rooms much needed for decent folk...
...traces of gold were found in the Val D'Or area, in the heart of Quebec's wild northwestern bush country, as early as 1909, but the town of Val D'Or itself was not really born until 1933, when a peripatetic barber set up a stool on a flat rock and started to work on hairy prospectors. In 1934, the year the Selfs arrived, the town's official population was five...
...Negro jumpleader, landed in court after a tussle with Claude Hopkins, whose band plays at Broadway's Cafe Zanzibar on Cab's night off. Claude appeared in court in a black-&-white-checked suit with bright green necktie, complained that Cab had yanked him off his piano stool and slapped him around "for no reason at all." Cab, also in a black-&-white-checked suit with a red-white-&-blue bow tie, said that Claude had made the first pass. The Man with the Hi-de-Ho was held for assault...
Then he was off to the Renown, to stand on a stool high on her bridge as the Augusta passed by. On the Augusta's bridge, the President stood alone. The ships' blinkers exchanged farewells...
...warm night this summer Barney ordered the band to fanfare Loch Lomond. A chubby little Alice-in-Wonderland, carrying a pint-sized harp, skipped to the platform and hopped to a high yellow-leathered stool. A white spot picked up a white face, surrounded by carrot hair which fell halfway to the girl's waist. Said she: "This is an Irish harp. With it I will sing you a very tiny song...