Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before the bridge inaugural, some members of the British House of Commons were talking with the Agent in London of the State of New South Wales, Mr. A. C. Willis. They told him they had learned of a plot in Sydney to pick up six-foot Premier Lang just as he was opening the bridge and throw him overboard into Sydney harbor, 172 ft. below...
Knowing his fellow Australians, Agent Willis could easily believe them capable of such a playful plot. He rushed from the House of Commons, dashed off a cable to Premier Lang, discovered next morning that London's urbane Press thought "someone has been pulling Mr. Willis' leg." In England Premiers are not tossed off bridges. That even Australians would plot such a thing is to Englishmen quite unthinkable...
Meanwhile Sydney seethed. Sydney is the Capital of New South Wales and its agent in London is, in Sydney's eyes, almost an ambassador. If Agent Willis had seen fit to warn Premier Lang, extraordinary precautions must be taken against the "plot...
...large quantities. It drives him so wild that he beats his wife to death. Dorothy Jordan and Robert Young are drawn together by their mutual hate of alcohol. When they marry, Young joins the Federal Prohibition force. He soon learns the futility of his endeavor from a seasoned agent of the law (Jimmy Durante). Gangsters try to kill him. He is saved by Durante at the lamentable expense of Durante's own life. But this is only a minim of catastrophe. The heroine's brother goes blind from poison booze. The hero's father gets life imprisonment...
...blood poisoning. Rather than send him to the free U. S. hospital, which the Negroes dread, Cherie gives up all her savings to have him treated privately. Josiah dies, and her hopes of seeing France wither. But there is still one hope in Tsamatsui. a Japanese merchant, whose last agent for Canal espionage has been shot. He offers her $200 for a few observations. Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France and a gilded Eiffel Tower of lead, and who has since gone to the dogs...