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...small ones almost any time." He promised that his agents would "stay within the law in enforcing the law," that his actions would be "as unobjectionable as possible" to Wet Manhattanites. To show him their mettle, his subordinates promptly pounced on a $30,000 Bronx cache of wines & beer, and a truckload of beer from New Jersey, chief Manhattan supply...
...Bronx Philadelphia...
...unicorn takes his place in the zoo which never existed as a sharp contrast to harpies, gorgons, sea serpents, lamias, werewolves, dragons. He is virtually the only one who did not harm man. Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would...
Eventually Mrs. Pizzuco, "after spending several hundred dollars," got an Italian civil court moving toward the release of her husband, but the pace was almost imperceptible until Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, stirred up by Bronx friends, protested potently. Without warning or explanation, Private Pizzuco was told by his Italian sergeant at 11 o'clock one night to get out of barracks and scuttle to his wife...
...Bronx County, N. Y., police clapped one Sallen Haten, charged with forgery, into jail. Undismayed. Sallen Haten caused "Situation Wanted" advertisements to appear in newsheets: "Sales analysis, sales promotion and customer's control man, writes effective and productive sales letters and campaigns ... at present awaiting trial in jail...