Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vacations are like beautiful ladies both rare and fleeting, especially when one has a bank account of eight cents, owes three and must eat some time. So I can remember very distinctly just what happened the last week of classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected...
Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister...
Golconda, Ill., yielded a 17-foot mastodon spine from four yards of mud on the Ohio River bank...
During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...
...wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes ($500) and heaved them at submissive heads. Countless eyewitnesses testify to his evident delight in scorched palms and bruised flesh. For many years he journeyed often to London and personally drew the gold and silver which he scattered, from a bank which allegedly received some $20,000 a week from the administrators of his property in the U. S. For years a group of London beggars made pilgrimages to Brightlingsea...