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...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...Special Deputy U. S. Attorney-General Norman J. Morrison who had prosecuted her, put out her hand, said: "I want to thank you. You were a perfect gentleman." Shaking the hand, Mr. Morrison mournfully retorted: "You were the toughest customer I ever had." He had been unable to pin on her any technical responsibility for alleged liquor-selling in her "club," where she is merely "employed as hostess...
Today however Austria is only a republic, and therefore when the Cabinet at Vienna fell last week, most U. S. editors reacted as though a pin had dropped. Tucked away on the tenth page of the omnivorous New York Times was a very creditable account; but elsewhere in the U. S. the story was either omitted entirely,* or condensed into a sketchy account varying in length from three lines...
...week shuffled its criminal code and gave 'leggers a new deal. The State repealed its "life-for-a-pint" law which sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...play, and one person after another falls into someone's arms or else is suddenly dragged offstage by a mysterious form. In the end somebody has to be found to be the villain or the play would have absolutely no raison d'etre, and the resourceful authors manage to pin someone down just in time to send the audience home contented...