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...document the contents of which have a rather familiar ring is a petition by the residents of Stoughton Hall "that some measures may be adopted, by which better care may be taken of our rooms." "At present," the petition reads, "the object seems to be to do as little as possible, and in as short a time as possible, and finding that our personal requests and remonstrances have no permanent effect, we adopt this mode of seeking redress...
...with a pistol. In Prospect Park she made Rex R. Fairbanks strip to his underclothes, get out. From one police station to another went Rex R. Fairbanks, in underclothes and hat. unable, for lack of definite police jurisdiction, to find sympathy or help in recovering the money, watch and ring he had lost with his clothes. Finally he went home. In the morning the police wrote him a note: "Sorry for inconvenience you were caused...
...Bronx, left him with a two-week growth of whiskers and an uncertain memory. After much patching together of diverse clues the police were able to track down in three cities four men (one a Negro) and a female octoroon, alleged members of a "ring." Taken with them were $17,000 of the Rosenthal $50,000 and a small book listing names of wealthy "prospects...
Nikki the aviators continue their attempts to improve their states of minds by antics with cab-horses, hotel elevators, the furniture in Nikki's apartment. Their final and most disastrous escapade is a trip to Lisbon. Here one of the aviators jumps into a bull ring and is gored to death by the bull. Another shoots a disagreeable reporter and runs away after the shooting. A third, accidentally hit by a bullet, expires in theatrical fashion, seated in a horse-cab. The fourth aviator (Richard Barthelmess) is left with Nikki...
Whenever he wins a fight, Welterweight Jimmy ("Baby Face") McLarnin turns a handspring in his corner of the ring before he makes the conventional gesture of clasping his hands and shaking them over his head. The trick is significant; it seems to be the expression of Celtic characteristics which have endeared him to a public which likes its pugilists Irish. Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle is another kind of fighter. Three years older than McLarnin-26-his face is scarred and flattened by the beatings he has received in the course of a long and intermittently successful career. When they were...