Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Emma Littlefield Moore, 53, retired actress, wife of Actor Victor Moore who played "Vice President Throttlebottom" in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake; of pneumonia; in Farmingdale...
...capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders...
Cripes, fells, we thought we were in America when we got back, not in Swineland. My wife ins't coming to her Twenty-fifth Reunion. Cambridge isn't big enough for the two of 'em...
...midnight, Host Gettle and a friend named Wolf were alone in the pavilion having a drink at a new bar. They had just clinked glasses when two masked men walked in. "Put 'em up." Gettle and Wolf were led outside and across the garden to a high wall. Leaving Wolf taped and bound, the snatchers hoisted Gettle's 500-lb. bulk over the wall by a ladder, dumped him down on the far side, drove him off into the night...
...right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...