Word: loing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Ferdinand Eberstadt, onetime Dillon, Read & Co. partner. Reparations Conference assistant to Owen D. Young; lo be a member of Otis & Co., Cleveland brokers...
...order to escape the drought existent here. I have been a frequent passenger aboard Dollar liners, and I have never had to forego the pleasure of my evening cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart, depending upon the demand for the brand you order. There may be some boats flying the Dollar house flag upon which...
Congratulations! At last I have discovered the facts about something I have wanted to know for lo! these many moons-and it remained for TIME to bring me the info...
...China, one Han Yu-ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...
...might a glib varlet, lacking the nerve lo be an out-&-out racketeer, make money out 'of Prohibition at small personal risk and outlay? One way might be to impersonate a U.S. revenue agent and frighten hush money out of unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld...