Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen to all three at once, copies of the formula are cached in two bank vaults, one in Trinidad, the other in London. The Wuppermanns (A. Edward and Francis- Frank Morgan) are merely the U. S. distributors of the Bitters...
Coming from a family that has long had the sea in its blood (his brother is Novelist Captain David Bone) Muirhead Bone started life as a bank clerk in Glasgow. Drawing, and particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...
...next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest is in stocks, bonds, mortgages, bank accounts. At year's end there was a cash balance of some $580,000. These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week's report complained again & again of insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were...
...Varsity race will be run over a 4 1/2 miles course starting at the horse track on the Stadium side of the river and finishing at the Newell Boat House also on the Boston bank of the Charles. The Freshman course will be about 2 1/2 miles long, starting and finishing at the same place as the Varsity...
...apiece. Then about 40, 0. Henry was heavyset, thick-featured, brown-haired, courteous, extremely reserved about his past and generally silent in company. Author Williams had known him for years before he learned that the short-story writer had served a prison term in Ohio for embezzling a bank. The short-story writer and the cub reporter quickly became friends, with Williams showing O. Henry the city, standing with him at bars, listening to the stories of bums, streetwalkers, cranks that gave O. Henry the material of much of his fiction...