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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis from Kansas City, housewives who had known Henry Summers since he wore rompers looked at each other in amazement. "Why, that Summers boy! Do you mean to tell me-you mean to say that young-I always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers had won the singles championship of the American Bowling Congress...
...Author's Note to THE MURDER AT FLEET (J. P. Lippincott Company, 1928. $2.00.) Eric Brett Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood...
...work which falls to the lot of every medical student, little time is left for extra-curricular activities. It has been the aim of the Medical School Society, therefore, to vary the daily routine of Medical School life by opportunities for recreation in the true sense of the word rather than to offer opportunities for further work in social and religious service, although the Society recognizes the value of such work and takes a census of each entering class with that in view...
...Last week it was Finance Chairman John J. Raskob, guiding financial genius of General Motors, also in a leave-taking ship-news speech, who spoke the word. He was reported as saying that General Motors stock should be selling at $225 a share. It was then selling at $187.25. It shot up to $199, and in two hours of trading the shares of his corporation increased $47,850,000 in value, making an aggregate market value for the company of $3,306,000,000, another record gone. (U.S. Steel's stock is worth...
...word, the picture is very amusing and eminently well worth seeing; well directed with Miss Brooks and Mr. McLagien forming a very delightful contrast...