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...oarsmen may have several paddles of about four miles between now and next Wednesday. They will be given a week on the last three days of next week prior to their departure for Red Cop on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRISON IS GIVEN TRY IN STROKE SEAT | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

This volume includes Ring Lardner's stories, old and new, testifies to his long-standing importance as a reporter of the American scene. His dramatic personae, ranging from prize-fighter to debutante, cop to jazz-writer, "just folks" to "the best people," offers more complete a panorama than Sinclair Lewis. His argot, quite as accurate as Ernest Hemingway's, is never mannerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lardner, U.S.A. | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself: "I can't feel as bad as I think I do. I only seen her four or five times. I can't really feel this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lardner, U.S.A. | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...costs a quarter then. Sure she still works there. Sa-ay, she's smooth! But a big boy in a Cadillac calls for her every night. No, but Al tried. He drove up in front with his Chevy one time and blew the horn until the manager got a cop. Guess he was afraid of another riot. We students just don't have any riots. Didye get that one? It's a good pun. Well, even Kitty says puns are O. K. and he's a pundit. All right. I'll shut...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

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