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SERENADE To THE HANGMAN-Maurice Dekobra-Payson & Clarke ($2.50). Ibrahim, an Egyptian cuckolder, is imprisoned in Stamboul, about to be hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide...
...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...
...shot came a few minutes before banks were due to open. That morning the doors of Plum's comparatively small Folkebank (capital $1,600,000) remained locked. Cousin Bretteville Plum, the bank's Managing Director, scouted the police theory that Tycoon Plum had intended to commit suicide. Stock of the Folkebank dropped only 15 points. Hours dragged by, with Plum the Great unconscious...
...sole War guilt and then lays upon her the burden of Reparations, some hot-headed Germans hug the fallacy that if the Fatherland would only repudiate her guilt she could then impress the Allies with the logic of refusing to pay Reparations for a crime which Germany did not commit. Such hotheads are bristling Dr. Hugenberg and his reactionary Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet League"). With the death three weeks ago of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a statesman who always preached conciliation with Germany's enemies, the Hugenbergians pulled from their pockets copies of what they call their "Liberty Law." They...
...before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa...