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...same class of workers up in small communities and provide small industries for a cash income; 3) to transfer farmers from worn-out lands to homesteads of 30 or 40 acres on good land where they can grow their own food and perhaps pick up a little pin money from local industries or home handicraft...
...almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...support of literates who once believed him above such stuff, Dillon has played a very small part indeed, indicating plainly enough that his job is as yet too big for him. The Boston Herald advertising itself "a Republican paper and proud of it" has muffed its big chance to pin the Governor, and has lost a good slice of circulation to boot...
...large lavender French 1,000-franc notes at the Hungarian State Cartographical Institute and dumping them in France and Holland. The forgeries were excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches of ten. Sharp-eyed French cashiers first spotted the forgeries when banknotes began coming in with no pin holes. Flic Chiappe did better. One of his agents had gone with three of the forgers and a trunkful of notes to Holland. He produced the evidence that...
Robert Barrat, as Anderzian the Armenian blackmailer, is appropriately slick and villainish; while Eugene Pallette does a good job in the role of Sergeant Boggs, jumping at conclusions, trying to pin the murder on the first person at hand, using third degree methods...