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*She used the name Bloor-borrowed from a Welsh compatriot named Richard Bloor-as an alias while investigating the Chicago packinghouse industry in 1906. Fellow radicals took to calling her Mother Bloor, and the name stuck.
"What Is the Reason?" The nation's first postwar generation continued to converse in Latin, to eat their breakfast of dinner leftovers (olla podrida, alias slum), to debate such questions as: "What is the reason that though all rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not increase...
Insurance investigators were justifiably suspicious when Mrs. Grace Walker tried to collect for head injuries she claimed she suffered while walking near a granite quarry last month. Mrs. Walker, alias Rimrock Annie, had had a long and profitable history of similar claims. Her success was due to the fact that...
¶The New York syndicate. Headquarters: Manhattan. The command: Frank Costello and his No. 1 man, swart Joe Doto, alias Joe Adonis. Its specialties: gambling casinos, slot machines, crap games.
The "unsalable" wits were not exactly unknown even in the early days of the Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor...