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...young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly the sea rose like a bubble, burst with a deafening roar into towers of spray. The little Artiglio was tossed in the air like a child's toy, broke in two, sank instantly. Only seven of her crew of 21 were picked up alive. Rescuers found the lifeless bodies of Divers Gianni...
...Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...
...asking for a big rubber ball in which they proposed to sail to Europe with no motive power or steering device other than the wind. They planned to take food and water for three months. They said they had been watching how Herzog's small daughter's toy balloon floated at the beach. Two concerns were interested...
...meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal, kidnaps Harvey to his yacht where is foregathered a group of magnates playing furiously with toy trains. Harvey's ego diminishes, and much clean fun with Margot ensues, interrupted by a visit from Frances and some friends on a small cruiser. Frances & friends drink with such success that Frances, disillusioned as to Harvey's wealth and roundly repudiating him, falls overboard, has to be rescued...