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Starting with the night the Volstead Act shut down on the U. S. (Jan. 16, 1920), omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought...
...Princeton a small, brown-shingled house had been leased for the Einsteins, near the homes of the late Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke and John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein...
...answer to your claim for property stolen by General William T. Sherman during his stroll through Georgia, it gives me great pleasure to reimburse, in kind, you for the property taken...
...office one morning dressed in a cutaway coat. This is because his wife has been lecturing him on the advantages of fine feathers; his employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that his political patron is using him as a blind to sell defective ladders and trapezes. Then he stops making advances to the patron's wife (Lilyan Tashman), resigns...
...brilliant. Then weeks of vicious internecine practice in which the beat each other regularly thus destroying all confidence and by the sole and necessary fact of defeat make accord raters out of champions. They live on the Place do la Concorde, world's noisiest square. Unable to sleep, they stroll the streets till midnight. This means getting up about 12 o'clock the next day for the match. A child of twelve could advise better...