Word: bolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still possible for the Undergraduate, but no longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...
...bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their acreage, pushed their production...
Married. Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll, 32, friend of Promoter Charles A. Levine; and a Count Henri de Porceri, 43 (Polish-born, U. S.-naturalized); in Paris...
...conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...
Charles A. Levine, rich Long Island scrap-metal man, "first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger," and Mabel Boll, bejeweled publicite who once contemplated flying from France to the U. S., arrived together in Paris. Said he, when asked if he planned to divorce his wife and marry Miss Boll: "The whole thing is utterly absurd. We just came over to spend a little vacation at Carlsbad. There is nothing unusual in the fact that Mabel is in town. We are good friends, you know...