Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frauds. The Boston Better Business Bureau was built up by Mr. Greene and now has over 600 members. Last fall they exposed the methods of Wrestler Gu's Sonnenberg. It has been especially active recently in routing out stock promoters; it put a quietus on many Boston Curb Exchange operators. Last fortnight it published a bulletin which contained some surprising firms and products which it flayed for offering stock with merchandise...
...writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad. Other books: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, Orient Express, Manhattan Transfer, Rosinante to the Road Again, A Pushcart at the Curb; The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc. (plays...
...generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half a loaf of bread and a large piece of goat's milk cheese down the narrow...
...that here was a definite cure for cancer. They rushed in multitudes to San Francisco. Last week Drs. Coffey and Humber could not attend the hordes of miserable comers who applied for treatment at the General Hospital. Many they found it necessary to treat at their hospital's curb...
Propper specializes on high grade hosiery ("At all shops serving a discreet clientele") between $3 and $6 the pair. In 1929 its gross earnings were $691,127, gathered from some 130,000 dozen pairs of stockings. Propper stock is listed on the New York Curb. When it first appeared, President Leo Propper received a note daintily written on a small card, saying: "May your stock run as well as your stockings...