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...arouse. Suddenly two men jumped from the shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered sight & senses his attackers had vanished. But he found a small address book which later led to the arrest of one of the hold...
...when the average price was $8.86 per cwt. Tobacco farmers were pouring into North Carolina towns to spend their money on automobiles, zipper jackets, silk dresses. At a Winston-Salem warehouse, where the average price has been well over $30 per cwt., Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies...
...wallet of every cautious German bulged week ago with an automobile license, a police registration card, a Nazi party card and, for good measure, a passport. Last week Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick stuffed in one more. Hereafter each German must also carry a racial card (sippenblatt: sippe, kin; and blatt, card). After an official investigation of his ancestry, a pure "Aryan" German will be certified as such, an impure one clearly labeled...
...with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does not know that he has nearly precipitated a domestic crisis. He plants a fat wallet on the floor, continues to paddle arriving Sons of the Desert when they stoop to pick it up. This trick he considers a "darb." In Sons of the Desert, Charley Chase makes his first appearance in a full length picture. His rôle shows him to less advantage than...
...wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...