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...That Andrew Jackson was a young blade very fond of fighting and swearing. Mr. Moore answered that he did so only in youth, and very little by comparison with other men of his time, that he fought only three duels...
...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...
...corner, out into the older part of the college toward the Meadows, familiar music greeted the visitors. In the great Dining Hall, none other than Vincent Lopez "and his band," hale and hearty from Yankee-doodledum, were forcing toes to jazz with his syncopated music while the dowagers and fond mamas awaited expectantly for the engagements that would be announced that night...
...heard him? Only a few thousands out of India's few hundred millions. Only in Bengal, the Punjab and the Bombay Presidency did the numbers amount to anything; and even at that the "teeming millions," of which Mr. Das was so fond of speaking, were untouched, hopelessly disinterested in politics...
...Story. If you marry into Fifth Avenue society at 21, bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist...