Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Half Black Geese...
...both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
...twice had the absorbing experience (once on the Pacific and once on the Atlantic) of standing on the beach and seeing that certain big black fin cut the water out where, but a few minutes before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head...
Then there is Tomas, a big pot-bellied black fellow at headquarters, who is a sort of chief operator, or section chief. Officially Tomas belongs to the Avenida automatic exchange, quartered in the same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints...
...best guess, between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 bu. Because the critical month of May had been kind to winter wheat, brokers on the Chicago Board of Trade were pretty well prepared for the Crop Reporting Board's estimate. Next day, however, despite reports of black rust in Kansas, the price of July wheat dropped from...