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...movies are wrong sometimes. Even the Riviera has its more staid, moral and conservative element. It seems that the younger generation of France had read Rousseau and had taken his teachings to heart. In the cool of the afternoon they were wont to bathe on the Riviera beach clad only as God made them...
...machinery have no right to be all velvet to industry unless they are velvet to society. Industry has no right to take till the gains that come from this rapid substitution of machine process for human hands without bearing a substantial part of the consequent dislocation of the human element which it causes...
...form of entertainment in which a performer specialized. "His racket is mammy songs." "She's got a good racket -clog-dancing and trained poodles." From this it entered general circulation to connote any method, especially an easy one, a hackneyed one, or a smart new one with an element of trickery, by which people got along in the world. Its later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected...
...said: "He knew (as no other living person) the entire confidential story of the White House. And Gaston Means-close mouthed, silent, efficient- did not talk-until-." The Sun also said: "This story is told as FACTS without the slightest attempt to make it spicy or to inject an element of sex." Other headlines on the page: "Harding's Love Affairs Involved Nation in Net"; "Girl and Babe Are Trailed"; "Family Quarrel in White House. ... 'I Never Loved You.' " The serial was started on schedule; Vancouver's reaction was reported as " unfavorable." The daily instalment...
...third. How far the results of a six-day race are determined in advance critics of sport have never agreed. At times John Chapman, impresario of U. S. six-day racing, promoter of races in Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed...