Word: bijou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained in the world's highest powered school of dialectic, the Chicago underworld. Jack Hugo Baruch was born 32 years ago in Berlin, schooled in The Hague, went to the U. S. at 16. In Manhattan he was a Shubert office boy and manager of Manhattan's Bijou Theatre before he changed his name to Bilbo, went to Chicago and fell in with gangster Al Capone in 1926. How close he was to Scarface Al is a moot question. There is no record that he ever lay in bilboes...
...Bent, Deserter" or "Santa Claus' Partner," "a Christmas bijou" or farce of anonymous dramatization, made its first advance towards the boards at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when members of John Winthrop House held their first rehearsal for this dramatic masterpiece which they will present in the Junior Common Room of the House on the evening of December...