Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great American Rudeness," i.e., the custom that a hostess serves herself first-at which Mrs. Post hurls a five-page jeremiad, denouncing it as a vulgar survival from the poisoning Borgia era...
...school of criminals that flourished in the prohibition era, Johnny Torrio was probably dean. From Brooklyn's Five Points Gang he went to Chicago as chief gunman for James ("Big Jim") Colosimo. As assistant in Chicago, Johnny Torrio selected a stocky Brooklyn boy named Al Capone. In 1920, Jim Colosimo was shot dead. Torrio succeeded him as Chicago's top racketeer and kept Al Capone as a $75-a-week underling. Johnny Torrio left Chicago shortly after Dion O'Banion's elaborate funeral in 1924, went back to be riddled with bullets by O'Banion...
...hours after the death of Andrew Mellon (see p. 12), whose $9,000,000 art gallery for the city of Washington he had designed, Architect John Russell Pope died last week in Manhattan. The New York Times and Herald Tribune carried eulogistic editorials, at once praising and commemorating the era of U. S. architecture in which Pope ranked as a master...
...done all over the United States today." Discussing laborers, Sol philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction of improved relations with his radical-minded miners, Dan launched a company union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer, who used to warn his sons that "roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth, easily set the record for Guggenheim picturesqueness. Sued at age 77, shortly before his death, by 45-year...
...After Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had said in the House of Commons last week: "If we will not join an international bloc against Communism-and we won't -neither will we join an international bloc against Fascism," Dictator Mussolini newsorgans opined warily: "A new era of good feeling between Italy and Britain finally may be opening...