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...Vagabond has gotten about a goodly bit. In his day he has seen the capitals of the world gaudy with the pomp and panoply of kings. He has held London in the same comfortable respect as he regards his grandfather. He has looked upon Paris as a young girl with rouged cheeks and a broken heel. But Vienna was like a young debutante at her first dance. A little above herself in her fine clothes, a little sentimental when the orchestra strikes up a popular song of years past, but gorgeously enjoying herself. The Vagabond harks back to the days...
Just the least bit paunchy because of a bandage drawn tightly across his little abdomen, Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden hobbled gallantly into the House of Commons on his two rubber-tipped canes last week, leaned for support against the dark oak despatch box table and made in 62 minutes flat his Budget Speech, normally an affair of two hours or more...
Recently Mrs. Amelia Facteau was passing the Washington, D. C. home of a Mrs. Rose Regland. Suddenly a huge blue goose sprang out upon Mrs. Facteau, knocked her down, bit and scratched her severely. Last week a court decreed that Mrs. Regland must pay Mrs. Facteau $50 damages...
Harvard started the scoring in the first inning, McCaffrey counting for the first score on DesRoches's long three-base clout to right field, being soon followed by DesRoches himself, who scored on a wild pitch. The veteran guardian of the hot corner found himself a bit yesterday afternoon, poling out three hits out of five times up. McCaffrey also showed up much better at the bat than he has previously, collecting three safe hits out of three chances...
...messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...