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Ripping into his critics, Senator Black charged that the same kind of seekers of special privilege who had organized the Liberty League were behind "fake farm unions, sentinels of the republic, protectors of liberty, guardians of the Constitution, self-defense leagues." Picking out the Chicago Tribune for special mention, he declared that, "a gross and malicious campaign of misrepresentation" had been launched against his Committee...
...merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking for "Lo Mi Su" and "Li Mu Su," the ideographs into which their superiors had translated Romulus & Remus...
...trickster who instantly changes costume a dozen times, plays a collapsible fiddle and an expanding guitar, withdraws at least 150 fake bananas from his capacious pockets...
...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...
...horseplay that might add freshness and fun to their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking. Since for the past decade one of the most amusing...