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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, lay Earl Carroll, Manhattan theatrical producer, sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary after being convicted of perjury in connection with Miss Joyce Hawley's famed champagne bath at the Carroll party of Feb. 22, 1926. Collapsing en route to Atlanta (April 13), he had been taken to the Greenville (S. C.) Hospital, had there remained...
...more of this world's (material) goods. Perhaps Mr. Banks can approach an explanation of this: he is the best chess player in this country-and perhaps in the world-among the few real masters of checkers. Checkers has been given, by the vast army of the uninformed, en aura of most ordinary simplicity-something to be patronizingly smiled upon by those whose assumption of superiority varies directly as their utter ignorance of what the game really is. To most persons, not particularly those in custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair...
...Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...
Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate rich-boy, husband of Princess Xenia of Greece: "Milk squirted, glass flew high and wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur...