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...acquainted with Wrexham, tell him what they think of Scrivener. Each description is different. None of the friends have met, but through Wrexham they become intimate. Complications ensue. Soon Wrexham is convinced that the whole business is an experiment of Scrivener's, a carefully laid plot to bring these varied types of men and women together, to see how they will react on each other...
...agent obeyed, found Mile Salzmann to be aged 21, pretty, romantic. The agent also was young. Under the Swiss moon he made love to his victim. Presently he knew that "Esther" meant "shipment"; "uncle'' meant "Customs officer." "Money" therefore meant a bribe. He had unearthed a smuggling plot which had permitted at least $1,000,000 in watches to enter the U. S. free of duty, defrauding the Government of $350,000 a year...
...Without the Mace it is doubtful whether the House can sit with authority, and a story is recalled of how the late T. P. O'Connor revealed a plot among Irishmen to seize the Mace and throw it into the Thames. Yet, bitter as the Irish passions were then, no Irishman ever touched the Mace...
...complete ignorance of the plot, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, Liberal M. P., had just moved an amendment to the Income Tax Law exempting from tax corporation profits spent for repairs or the mechanical expansion of plants. Cried tricky David Lloyd George, Liberal leader...
...devisers have stuck to their model, than it would have been if they had depended on independent inspiration. It is a War picture dealing with aviators, but the usual framework of such efforts has been drawn into a tense believable story, without a woman in the cast, without formal plot, without undue sentimentality. The action concerns Richard Barthelmess' dislike for a superior officer who seems to have a talent for sending young aviators to death needlessly. When he is moved into the officer's job he finds that he has to do the same thing in much...