Word: diversionism
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Principal diversion at Saratoga, after each day's races, is gambling in roadhouses like the Brook Club and the Piping Rock. Last week gambling-room proprietors expected to be allowed to run their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist...
Dollar volume of transactions on the Chicago Board of Trade as late as last year used to run less than one-half the total on the Stock Exchange. By last June the Board of Trade was handling nearly three times the dollar volume of the Big Board. Foreign brokers are...
We are indebted to "Time" for the latest bit of Conant lore. The President, it seems, has been somewhat nostalgic for test tubes and the small of chlorophyll. The new job didn't offer the opportunities for diversion that the old one did. But Mrs. Conant solved the problem. The...
Six years later he married Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of Harvard's Nobel Prize Chemist Theodore William Richards. Handsome and talented, she has lately persuaded her husband to do a little painting. He likes to motor over Europe, hike in the White Mountains, swim on Cape Cod. But chemistry...
¶ By way of diversion: The President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner and entertainment (Miss Jessica Lee, diseuse; Master Ruggiero Ricci, violinist) for a number of Senators, rear admirals, major generals and newspaper correspondents. Mrs. Roosevelt took a number of Cabinet wives to a morning concert attended by many...