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...shipyards at Portland, Ore. Nearby taverns do land-office business cashing shipworkers' checks on Thursday (for a dime or 20? fee), then selling them beer and the privilege of playing pinball machines. The Idle Hour Billiard Parlor cashes so many checks that it has installed a bullet-proof booth, with armed guards standing...
...voice kept yelling. Hey, I'm on Dean's List, or did I tell you? No, Mike. Go away. I've graduated from the Adams House telephone booth. . . . Where's Bowser? He said he had something on,--. We know: Basic English . . . I can't write about polities. I don't know anything about politics. What's been happening lately? Singapore just fell? O.K. Give me a typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea...
Said State Parole Board Chairman Booth B. Goodman: "I've seen a lot of tough 14-year-olds and this boy is not one of them." The prison chaplain, Father George O'Meara, and San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy, the judge and the parole board chairman were all in a quandary. They agreed that San Quentin is no place for a boy like Barney. But there is no law to permit his transfer. Barney does not seem to mind. He lives fairly merrily in the prison hospital...
...Mencken begins with Arthur Gooch, hanged in 1936 for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and works back along the rope to the Haymarket anarchists; to Charles Julius Guiteau, who shot President Garfield; to the Molly Maguires, the Irish miners who terrorized the Pennsylvania coal fields; to John Wilkes Booth's accomplices, including Mary Surratt, first woman ever hanged in the U.S. He also includes British body-snatcher William Burke, who added a wrinkle to the illicit business of selling bodies for medical dissection by creating his own corpses, and added a verb to the English language-to burke...
...girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...