Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cavalcade of jovial Greek bandits rode over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...
...West Point, Dance Master Vizay is not popular. The cadets, though they like dancing with girls, think there is something sissified about taking dancing lessons. Their dancing uniform is a white shirt, grey trousers, black belt...
Prince Mohammed Ah Ibrahim of Egypt is a spectacular figure in Europe's baccarat belt. He traces his ancestry back to Mehemet Ali Pasha, the "Terrible Turk" who conquered all Egypt in 1805, beat the British at Rosetta, decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with...
...yearly, industrial products $800,000,000. The filter is Des Moines, population 151,900. The bank will be the lowa-Des Moines National Bank & Trust Co., resources $40,000,000, result of a merger (to be formally voted next week) which has more relative importance to the corn belt than the recent stupendous bank mergers in Manhattan, Chicago or San Francisco have to their districts. It means that small metropoles-and Des Moines is typical of several-are moving against dependence upon the great financial centres. It means too that the half-billion and billion-dollar banks must look increasingly...
...rolling was won by Peter Hooper of Kelso, Wash. Clad in trunks and spiked shoes, he maintained his equipoise on a log furiously spinning in water for 14 min. 50 sec., when Sam Harris, his nearest competitor, splashed off. Champion Hooper received $150 and a belt stout enough to hold his bemuscled girth...