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...then was already famed since the beginning of the Gold Rush as "Sydney Town"-named for the Australian ruffians, escaped convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average of two murders a day. The town was nearly wiped out by incendiary fire six times before the Vigilance...
There is the time element, constantly pressing the best-laid plans of presidents and brain trusts. Mr. Roosevelt must score a big success, quick, or his program is likely to fall...
...sacrifice the female element on the alter of higher scholarship would be foolish opposition to an educational method which has met with success in many places. In at least one respect the College in the summer approaches most closely President Lowell's definition of one of those places where you get as much as you put into it, for education is not innoculated but voluntary. Fortunately the administration here has not sponsored many social activities, trusting rather the persistent ingenuity of hunters and huntresses, and thereby has avoided diverting those who really come to pursue learning. There are too many...
...Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement of his admirers who had never for a moment supposed that any of his recitations might be printable, Dwight Fiske published his first book, Without Music...
...herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence by having an affair with the strong man's more personable successor (George Brent). She is about to run away with him when there occurs the one moment in Lilly Turner that possesses an element of dramatic action. The lunatic strong man escapes from his asylum and throws the barker through a window. Lilly Turner stays with the medicine show to nurse him. Her lover stays on also, hoping that circumstances may improve...