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...snowy day in Moscow, the Grand Duke Sergius was blown to pieces at the Kremlin gate?one Kalayev threw the bomb; but the man who engineered the plot was the arch-Terrorist, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...last act, the authors (David Gray and Avery Hopwood) twisted themselves out of the clutches of their plot via a supply of idiotic philosophy from Father, who concludes that, after all, the chorus girl is probably the only one who can stop Brother's drinking and that Sister will certainly have some common sense thrown into her by the savage chauffeur...
This book takes no text; it employs no plot to give it body, no characters to give it blood and spirit. Its subject is the continent of Africa; and its strangeness proves once more the truth of an ancient apothegm concerning truth and fiction. Written in the manner of a novel and cast in the pattern of a travelogue, it belongs to that obscure hinterland of literature that W. H. Hudson visited in Green Mansions and Defoe, to a certain extent, in Robinson Crusoe...
...effort mentally and laugh themselves sick on the side. Unhappily, the things that aroused hilarity in Germany did not sound so funny in the U. S. The translation sounded like a literal rendering of German grammar exercises by one of the least intelligent members of the class. The plot bestirs itself about a haughty family who think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor's old father takes the second act pretty much into his own hands and creates a lot of disturbance by meretricious advertising in the papers, fake...
...Fallen was chief counsel for "Nicky" Arnstein, so-called Master Mind of the $5,000,000 Wall Street bond-theft plot. In 1922, he defended E. M. Fuller in two trials for bucketing, the jury in each trial being unable to agree. Charles W. Rendigs, the juror Fallon was accused of bribing in the Durrell-Gregory trial, also sat in one of the Fuller trials and voted steadfastly for acquittal. Rendigs is now a convicted perjurer awaiting sentence...