Word: goldsmithing
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...short, wiry figure of Frederick N. Goldsmith, 83, was as much a part of Wall Street as the pigeons on the Stock Exchange façade. For 50 years it had known his rumpled Panama hats, battered briefcase and friendly "Hi!" A successful man, he had made as much as $39,000 a year writing his market forecasts. Some 200 steady subscribers paid him up to $25 a month for his predictions...
...Then Goldsmith came under the critical eye of New York State Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein. In advertisements of his service, he had claimed to have "inside" information. The investigators, suspecting fraud, called in Goldsmith. Where did he get his "inside" information? What Goldsmith told them, reluctantly, made their eyes...
...spiritualist had put him in touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
...Pagodas. The son of a poor Czech goldsmith, Oskar Kokoschka briefly earned a living decorating fans and postcards, or betting U.S. tourists he could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
Harper's all-sophomore infield includes John Chase, Mort Dunn, John Goldsmith, and Bud Gibbs. Dunn is second to Varsity infielders John Coppinger, Eruie Mannine, and Myles Huntington and might see Varsity action later in the season. Gibbs, a transfer from the University of Chicago has been hitting well. As a whole, the team's hitting has not been outstanding but it's been timely; for instance against Tufts four hits yielded four runs. And the Jayvee played errorless ball for their first two games...