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...boom there is easy money and to it flock swindlers, 'leggers, dope-sellers, gamblers, prostitutes and pimps. In eastern Texas last month oil began to gush out of Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some...
...circus folk. Authors are Willard Keefe (Celebrity) and Edward J. Foran, longtime follower of the tanbark trail. Like any circus, their lively melodramatic comedy contains such a plethora of activity that even the most interested customer is unable to take it all in at once. The Colton & Steel tent show may be going broke, but it is certainly not stagnating...
...Damn your brother!" he roared, and upon this broadminded basis Foch accepted the Tiger's flattering offer. Later, on one of Clemenceau's famed dashes to the front, he arrived at the headquarters of the Generalissimo, only to be told that Foch was kneeling in a nearby tent at Mass...
...tampered. The proper ratio between these two elements of undergraduate life pertains solely to the individual, and in seeking it it would do no harm to bear in mind the remark of Woodrow Wilson to the effect that the side shows should not be allowed to overshadow the big tent...
Achilles was a great man until he sulked in his tent. It is small wonder that the voters of Massachusetts have deserted a cause whose leaders are capable of such absurd gestures as a transcontinental sulk. Mrs. Peabody has neither faith, hope, nor charity. Anyway she has gone South. The birds are following...