Word: lucase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble. Fascist censors and the enforced caution of correspondents in Italy, kept news of disorders at a minimum. John Lucas, New York World newsgatherer, inclined to alarums, cabled:
In London, taxicab No. Y L 6636 supplies two services, unique in the world, its driver, William Lucas, modestly believes: 1) a clock that works; 2) free cigarets and matches. Old Mr. Lucas states that his clients never take more than two cigarets a trip. Cigarets are changed daily, each...
Last week the New York World glibly assigned a dramatic raison d'être to this rift in the Fascist lute. One John Lucas, who, from France or Switzerland, dashes off most of the World's alleged scoops of Italian news cabled:
One John Lucas, correspondent for the New York World, cabled a "scoop" last week from the town of Ventimiglia. Pounding furiously at his typewriter he wrote:
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa.