Word: cornelius
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...Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply, and the captain's own son, Cornelius, was in charge of her ancient but serviceable diesel engine. "We're going to have a fine trip," shouted Captain Van Delft down the engine-room hatch to Cornelius, and Cornelius agreed...
Before hardening of the monetary arteries set in, Newport reared its cottages like palaces, its hostesses like monarchs, and no higher gates remained to crash, outside of heaven's. Its most famous "cottage" was Cornelius Vanderbilt's "The Breakers," now unoccupied but open to sightseers, which cost $5,000,000 and boasted 70 rooms (33 of them for servants). Newport's sauciest social queen was Mrs. Stuyvesant ("Mamie") Fish, who relished the Texas Guinan approach to guests. "Howdy-do, howdy-do," she would jabber at new arrivals. "Make yourselves at home. And believe me, there...
...Advertised. In Atlantic City, Cornelius McGee was fined $100 for fraud after he was caught selling catnip cigarettes as marijuana...
Over 21. In Lichfield, England, during his trial for being AWOL, Private Cornelius C. Knight, 28, told the court-martial he had married a woman who told him she was 32 when she was really 51 and "I just went all to pieces...
...gouty arthritis, said Manhattan's Dr. Estes C. Kidd,. phenylbutazone has shown "remarkable effects," and appears to combine the virtues of colchicine and Benemid, the two best drugs up to now. For the whole range of joint disorders, said Dr. Cornelius Traeger, it is "the most potent non-narcotic analgesic we have...