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...shipyard, a foreman asks for a wedge. Chaplin knocks one out of a cradle, thus launching an unfinished boat. He goes back to work in the steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot of a novel. Incidents have been "dragged in by the ears"; incidents which do not develop logically out of each other. Such are the slaying of a College watchman by Oliver Alden's father when indulging in collegiate monkeyshines; (this one is the revival of an old Med Fac legend.) Mario van der Weyer's abrupt departure from Harvard when he is surprised with a woman in his room in Claverley, even Oliver's death after the Armistice...
...Kankakee, Ill., trying to flag an automobile roaring into the path of an oncoming locomotive, Crossing Watchman Sam Piuppo, 59, was struck and killed by the car which cleared the front of the locomotive by inches, roared...
...graduate schools, and club groups, whose accomodations are far from Eden, commonly known as the fifty-yard line. At the present time there is no evidence of abuse or favoritism on the part of the H. A. A., but the agitation for better tickets serves as a noisy watchman to prevent the Bingham office from lapsing into such a Bourbon condition...
Seeking out Key for a story, reporters made their way to the luxurious Sunset Boulevard home of the Brothers Harold & Edward Janss. There in a cottage at the rear of the house "Ted" Key and his father James D. Key were in residence, the father acting as "watchman." By this time, though, young Key had disappeared, so it was to the father that newshawks put their queries. Was it true that "Ted" Key was really Clois Francis ("Shorty") Key, who played two years as fullback with the Texas School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father...