Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Schofield asked Capone if he had met such notorious Philadelphians as Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff. Replied Capone: ";No, but I know them intimately...
Rickenbacker Field, as all airmen know, is at Sioux City, Iowa. Ace Wolff happened by that city as manager of the Freiburg Players, touring the U. S. with their Passion Play (TIME, May 13). Ace Wolff and the Fassnacht family of Freiburg, Germany, who dominate the cast of the Passion Play, are old acquaintances...
...face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device...
...Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
...with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes and you will...