Hidden Ways and a Murder Plot Unfolds at Paget Home
Allegra Paget, uneasy and smart, confesses a lie to avoid an opera night while crime close behind. In a taxi ride, a murder suspense deepens as Everett Ferriter dies and Allegra’s brother Grove is suspected. Agatha Paget, Captain Shannon, and others weigh loyalty, truth, and a looming courtroom decision.
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Allegra
Agatha
Grove
Hallman
Cochrane
Lyon
Walters
Larry Duke
Morello
Duke
Everett Ferriter
Ferriter
Everett
Annie
Miss Paget
Miss Agatha Paget
Miss Agatha
David
Tertius Groesbeck
Shannon
Blackbeard
Allegra and the Portent in a Hallway Encounter
A reporter asks a puzzling question and, slipping through a foyer, the narrator searches for Allegra to shield her from impending danger. A cop blocks the scene in Morello’s hall as tension rises and the evening attire impresses authority.
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Duke
Allegra
Morello
PROPAGANDA OVERTONES AND DEFENSE FEARS IN JOHNSON TEXT
A 1930s op-ed style critique argues against war propaganda and rapid defense buildup, warning such moves ally the U S with Britain, threaten democracy, and risk a forced war economy. It cites St Lawrence waterway, private power at Niagara, and fears of national debt and control over private property.
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Straits of Malacca
Straits of Dover
Johnson
England
Mediterranean
Balkans
Persian
Persian Gulf
India
Africa
Asia
Malaysia
America
Atlantic
Pacific
Hitler
Britain
Atlantic Ocean
United States
ST. Lawrence Waterway
Senate
Middle West
Mississippi
Lake Michigan
Canada
Chicago Drainage Canal
Mississippi Valley
St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
Niagara Falls
Adolf Berle
O’mahoney Business-Balting Committee
Hollywood Dance Director Starred In Global Love And War
A legendary Hollywood dance director who taught Shirley Temple and Alice Faye rose to fame in Europe before returning to the U.S. He wed a European star, built a postwar life in London and Oslo, and later found work in America. The piece recounts wartime relocations, rescue tales by a British aviator, and famed figures like Tutta Rolfe and Wendell Willkie, with vivid anecdotes about life in exile, art, and resilience.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Alice Faye
Europe
Ziegfeld
Norway
Sweden
Old Country
London
Oslo
USA
Buddy DeSylva
Jack Donahue
Tutta Rolfe
Douglas Leigh
Broadway
Wilson
46Th Street
Wiite-Lowell
Capt
White
African Airways
Africa
Royal Air Force
Britain
Udet
Germany
New Yorker's Talk and Trains of Thought in 1960s Echoes
A collage of gossip and commentary on Bundies For Britain aiding an Italian count in Rome, Betty Hutton’s single status, and the Crossley radio check system. It notes Stendrick Van Loon's Invasion fiction, seances as Hitlerism spread, a famed author’s bail for local Quislings, Chaplin’s Great Dictator crowds, and playful takes on Washington Slept Here and Huckleberry Capone. Nun nally Johnson’s satirical Monday column closes the mix.
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Britain
Rome
Betty Hutton
Crossley
Stendrik van Loon
Chaplin
G. Washington
Nunnally Johnson
Broadway visit adds nothing new to Gellinger tale
The piece notes Mark Gellinger’s Broadway trip after nearly three years in Movietown and his claim that nothing has changed except his figure. It also mentions Chaplin’s indifferent stance on his marriage, his wish to avoid publicity affecting his film, and reviews of The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo that Trib music critic called a musical bore.
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Mark Gellinger
Broadway
Chaplin
Hig
Pich
Ballet Russe de
Daisy Hot Dish Mat An Appropriate Gift
Daisy hot dish mat idea inspired by a flower handle teapot. Describes braiding cotton strips, sewing with No 8 thread, and making mats for oval dishes by joining two daisies. Mentions materials, sizes, and potential as Christmas gifts or church bazaar items.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Coast line estimates by survey figures
According to United States coast and geodetic survey data the continental United States and its territories have a total general coast line of 16 900 land miles. If inland shores reached by tidal waters up to three miles wide are included the total rises to about 40 300 land miles, Pathfinder notes.
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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Continental
United States
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Sy Frederic F, van DE Water
Mr. Paget
Ione
Hugh S.johnson
United Peters Wiu BK Ae
Washington, D. C
Eo Shades
Texas
Guinan
Texas Guinan
F.D.R
White House
Wendell Willkie
Jimmy Roosevelt
Willkie
Jimmy
Mac Keith-Johnson
Colin Keith-Johnson
Paris
France
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Holland
Belgium
Direct Los
Ewnter
AK Center Circle
Ruth Wyeti Spears
Bedford
New York
Garfield Tea CO
the. Dept
Lord Chesterfield
Apolla
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Pinkham‘s
Doan
Pata Wuore
Doans
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