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...effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang refuses to accept him. Aunt Lily blames Bill for their antipathy. Manfully, Bill decides to run away from home, but when he does so his eccentric old friend Duffy (O. P. Heggie) brings him back...
...Mariani ruled the underworld of the northern manufacturing city of Lille in a manner that can only be compared to Broadway's Tenderloin in the days of the notorious Police Lieutenant Becker. Fortnight ago he was arrested on a simple charge, but quickly the accusations mounted: Mariani and his gang of Corsican relatives ran a secret printing press in Paris for forging automobile licenses. They operated a number of fences for stolen goods. They were embroiled in white slavery and drug peddling. Then came the first suspicion of murder. One of Mariani's dope peddlers was a mysterious Chinese known...
...Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that he could have intercourse with Minnie under a street light. He won his bet, the act taking place behind a bowling alley while the gang watched from outside the window...
Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...
...identifying himself as an economic and political Leftist. His Senate seat was hardly warm before he began a spectacular career as an investigator. He introduced the resolution to dig into Department of Justice dirt, acted as special prosecutor for the investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary. In retaliation, Daugherty agents...