Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever hear of Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's colossal writing capacity? Ingraham would have six serial stories running at one time in different periodicals, and provide the copy as required; a detective story, romance story, wild west story, Indian tale, sea story, and Mexican stories of adventure-all good stuff...
...result, summed up for Author Cooper by a procurer: "A guy doesn't have to break a girl in any more. . . . That's all old stuff now." Cooper's harrowing corroboration: Chicago's Cicero Danny has 500 girls under 18 on his waiting list. Cooper's conclusion: Localize the infection by restoring the old supervised red-light districts...
...through. Before he is really Fawziya's husband, he will have to travel with his bride to Iran (in a separate stateroom), be married the Persian way, feast 96 hours on goat's meat, watch nautch girls (professional dancers) do their stuff...
...century ago the press of England, if not its Government, was made of tougher stuff. The Times was not the Government organ it is now but a muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
...bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...