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...phenomenally honest and efficient commissioner it can easily be justified. The courts have failed repeatedly to convict known gangsters, aided by shyster lawyers and self-contradictory law. These gentlemen have walked the streets, danced and drunk in the night clubs, and played golf on the municipal links without the twitch of n eye-lash-surrounded by music men and what the press euphemistically calls. "female companions". Extra-legal methods are the obvious reaction of a conscientious police commissioner to such conditions...
...violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms: they drool, twitch, giggle, and gibber in the most authentic manner...
...begins to twitch and jerk and kick into the air in the most embarrassing manner at the most inopportune times...
Said Senator Elmer Thomas, who thought his beating of the silver drum last fortnight was largely responsible for this latest twitch of U. S. silver policy: "This move breaks the strangle hold of the world gold bloc and marks the way for a new money system throughout the world. The United States has set the pace. . . . Others will follow our action?or seriously consider doing so. At once they will retain all their silver and go in the market for more...
...plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large...