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...ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Rector's pigsty, he felt that his past was coming back to choke him. Belle, outraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, conducted Daniel to a lodging house in Newhaven. He realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley. In the morning, she would wake up empty of love, a wanton again. Daniel Shearer sat by the window, wrestled all night with his soul. He was, he realized at last, the kind of man whom women sacrificed. Aghast at her angry love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Cold Pastoral | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Nature won't I'll kill this Turnus pest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/14/1925 | See Source »

...plot concerns the troubles of the Halpin family. Coiny Halpin has sworn to kill Christie Barrett because Barrett's father kill his brother years ago; Ellen Halpin, his sister-in-law, is afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/17/1925 | See Source »

...last they chill me, kill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

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