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...public. Fully appreciative of the ethical problem involved in disclosing a private letter, he did not finally decide to do so without serious thought. The sorry predicament of Mrs. Trafton was the precipitating factor. She has tramped the streets looking for work, making numerous trips to Harvard in search of the "some other work at the university...
Most people in West Palm Beach, Fla., thought George W. Moore was a bootlegger. They had seen a truck backing up to his home, unloading bottles. Four U. S. Prohibition agents, with a search warrant from a U. S. commissioner, went to Moore's house one evening last week. Two approached the front door, two the rear. The search warrant was exhibited. From behind closed doors buckshot poured into the warm darkness...
Moore's defense: The search warrant was invalid after dark...
...Hansel and Gretel's father was a good-for-nothing. All fortunate enough to have been taken to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera know that he makes his entrance dancing a jig, brandishing a bottle. Because of him, Hansel and Gretel are raggedy, hard-working children who must search the woods for strawberries, thus falling into the clutches of a horrid old witch who comes near to eating them...
...serious-minded young governess has a good but disagreeable job with a horribly inconsiderate rich family, who treat her like a servant, search her room when anything: is missing. The English tutor never speaks to her in the daytime, but tries to get into her room every night. When everything has gone hopelessly wrong, one night she leaves the door ajar...