Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
...hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed" in 1919. He was supposed to have "shot the works" (bet all he had) on Hoover's election, most of it at the excellent odds...
...Banton, smiled. He knew that warrants were out for the arrest of Jane Doe, John Doe and Richard Roe-persons as yet uncaught by Attorney Banton but suspected perhaps more than McManus of having actually committed the murder in Room 349. Further apprehensions were still delayed last week. The Grand Jury indicted McManus and one Hyman (''Gillie") Biller, the late Rothstein's "payoff" man, for first-degree murder. Biller remained at large...
Hundreds of animals-cattle, swine, sheep, horses-were led into the crowded stockyard amphitheatre. Dick won the junior feeding contest, the prize for the best Hereford yearling, the grand prize for the best yearling, and $800 prize money for Clarence. Clarence was satisfied and wanted to go home to State Centre. But W. L. Blizzard of Stillwater, Okla., who awarded one of the prizes, told Clarence to enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took...
...Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing...