Word: claus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here we are", he cried, taking the taxi meter from its niche in the hall of poverty and placing it slightly above the average. "You are now at Santa Claus' home...
...Santa Claus", I asked, my heart beating at the time...
...thought that Yard cops did not believe in Santa Claus...
...Surely we do", said I dancing with glee to know that my faith was justified, for this certainly was Santa Claus. None else would give me a ride in a taxi "Some people think I teach Shakespeare or lecture on the Boston Herald. That is two other people. I teach human kindness pragmatically...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons?John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...