Word: fer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs are crowded at the same, time of day that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs, Larry Fay found it easy to switch to the milk business without any great change in work ing hours. His mistake was in attempting to trans fer night club business methods (i.e. polite but firm extortion) to the new enterprise. Even big, established milk companies feared his power. The result was that, when Larry Fay last week received his 57th summons in 14 years, whereas his previous offenses had been minor, this time the charge against...
...involuntary interruption of regular breathing, its victims seem comic to beholders and auditors. Sometimes the victim gets fun out of the experience, as in the story told about Actress Beatrice Lillie, last year at the gambling casino of Juan-les-Pins. When she sat down at a chemin de fer table, she began to hiccough, loudly. Before she could stop the croupier impassively shoved 150,000 francs to her. He thought that she had been barking "Banco...
...Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South...
George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
Funmakers. Another Manhattan lawyer, smiling P. St. George Bissell, was unanimously elected Chef de Chemin de Fer of the Quarante Hommes?Huits Chevtnix, funmaking Legion club named after the capacity signs (40 men?8 horses) stencilled on French box cars which used to take troops to the front...