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...girl whose chief characteristic is a pathetic gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a job as lady's maid in a patrician menage where the linen closets are large enough for téte-à-tétes with the chipper young son of the family. Lester Kane (Donald Cook). The romance between Lester and Jennie develops gaily enough until he goes to Chicago to manage a branch office...
...riding, fox-hunting socialites of Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...their Dutch cheese and devilled eggs, talking lightly of picnicking, the newest books, and love. Even in the darker moments that fell to his due, the Vagabond could betake himself to the official inn, as to a sanctuary. "A pint o' bitter, dearie," to the bar maid; and his solace would be there before him, to be taken not in long draughts this time, but in frequent sips, to further whatever consolations philosophy might offer. Even now he is reminded of the darkling lines...
...famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife, nor Widow), owning a Manhattan restaurant, writing (The Roar of the Crowd...
...them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither of them cares a whoop...