Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...Mellon methods which led managers to underestimate by $35,000 the total cost of the jamboree, it has become painfully necessary to lower the price of mezzannine seats from $100 to $40. Moreover, by chartering the arena for the weeks following the Republican convention, Democratic leaders have managed to chalk up to the G. O. P. ledger some $15,000 worth of staging and decoration. The show...
...that "to edit a lady's paper, even a relatively advanced one, is to foster conventionality and hinder progress regularly once a week." As a lesser evil he chose to earn money by writing sensational fiction, with serious work on the side. In 1899 he was able to chalk up, as he did at the end of every year, his grand total of words written-335,340 for that year (raised...
...nave. Like every other hotelman, Sam Shaw was bothered by the problem of washroom literature. He solved the problem by putting up in the men's lavatory an enormous blackboard, bisected by a white line. One side was headed POETRY the other PROSE. There was plenty of chalk for the suddenly inspired, an eraser for the censorious. In 1914 the city bought the Grand Union and tore it down in the course of subway construction. Since then Sam Shaw has lived in moderately comfortable retirement with his pleasant French wife...
...fussy as Willie Hoppe, who used to carry his own balls of Zanzibar ivory, or Walter Lindrum, an Australian professional who arrived in the U. S. last month bringing his own baize tablecloth for a series of exhibition matches, most foreign players at least carry their own chalk and several favorite cues. Poensgen brought something else as well: a grave, austere confidence which Van Belle lacked. It was this lack rather than the fact that Van Belle was playing in the U. S. for the first time, or the fact that he had often played Poensgen before and usually lost...