Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago an astounding character named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised 600 thoroughbred pigs even fatter and greasier than their owner. In 1935 "Pepper King" Bishirgian joined with his friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought...
...Black as caviar was the shore with crowds squinting through telescopes, among them what British police admitted was the largest collection of foreign spies and counterspies ever to attend a British function. Of the British ships in line they were particularly anxious to see the new fast torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high...
...Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling...
...academic body of which Harvard is justly proud. There are short-comings, to be sure,--and these are frankly dealt with in the article,--but, by and large, Anthropology is a pleasure to those who go into it, even if its specialized appeal make it hardly more than caviar to the general...
Married. Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell ("Jo") Makaroff, 30, grand- daughter of the late Founder George Huntington Hartford of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., divorced last December from Caviar Tycoon Vadim Stefan Makaroff; and Barclay K. Douglas, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; at Tallahassee, Fla. He is her third husband, she his second wife...