Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone...
...Besides their military titles, Col. William Franklin Knox and Col. Guy T. Visk-niskki have three things in common: Both served in the Spanish-American War, both became high-ranking Hearstmen, both spell "economy" in large capitals. Last week Col. Viskniskki resigned as general manager of Star Co., technical publishers of Hearst's New York American and Journal, to become business manager of Col. Knox's newly purchased Chicago Daily News. In the War, Col. Viskniskki was for a time officer in charge of The Stars & Stripes, A. E. F. newspaper...
...George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...
...Peter Breckenridge fractured several ribs in the following manner: He mounted his mule, set out for a ride. The mule stepped upon a nest of yellow jackets; the yellow jackets began to sting the mule, causing it to kick desperately. One of the kicks came in contact with a guy wire attached to a pole; the force of the kick made the pole fall down. A power wire strung on the pole fell on the mule, electrocuting it instantly; whereupon the mule fell over, landed on its rider, fractured the ribs of Peter Breckenridge...
...heels, the toast has been drunk. After this the little glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into the fireplace. This is a very expensive tradition, but a most pleasant and necessary one. And then there is the custom of searching the cellar for Guy Fawkes' men at the opening of every parliament. The torch bearer as he steals about the dripping cellars of the building is not a simple man. He knows that Guy Fawkes and all his men have gone and that if Parliament is to be destroyed it will be by their...