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...arrogant young man, one of two immoral young girls, or a lawyer who wears pince-nez spectacles and casts a tremendously large shadow. On the other hand, young Herbert Wynne might have killed himself. The only persons in the cast not suspected of the crime are a detective sergeant (George Brent) and a hospital nurse (Joan Blondell) who is assigned to take care of the old woman...
...reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark Gable, blunders about pleasantly as the police sergeant...
...bearded Dr. Hugo Eckener barked that proud announcement on Oct. 15, 1924 as he stepped from the gondola of the LZ-126 in the Navy's airship dock at Lakehurst, N. J. Neither his drill-sergeant bearing nor his snapping eyes gave hint of the ignominy in his mission: he was delivering the ship to the U. S. Navy from Friedrichshafen where his Zeppelin Co. had built it as a Reparations payment. Within the silvered hulk was a crew of stolid Germans, a mail cargo, a tabloid edition of Vossische Zeitung, 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's store...
...Yens, pistol in pocket, took a seat in the gallery of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies last week, presently blazed away at the Socialist benches. Socialist Deputy Uytroever clutched his side. Bounding upstairs the Sergeant-at-Arms seized Citizen Yens who made no effort to escape, calmly explained...
...Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp. He went abroad after the Armistice, fought in Franco-American amateur bouts in Paris. Later he joined the class of 1921 at Yale, won the U. S. amateur heavyweight championship when he was a freshman. At Oxford he coached the Marquis...