Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a Cleveland candymaker who, for a sideline, manufactured hard little mints shaped like and labeled Life Savers. Pushy Roy Allen and canny Ed Noble bought the idea and name in 1913 with money partly borrowed from Partner Allen's mother. They transferred operations to a loft in Manhattan, promoted Life Savers into a $4,000,000-per-year enterprise, which Ed Noble now calls "a happy, whimsical little business...
...Foreign capital seeking safe deposit in the U. S. kept vice presidents of Manhattan banks busy opening new accounts for Europeans...
Appointed to assist U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill in Manhattan was Raymond Ickes, 26, onetime CCC foreman and son of U. S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes...
Lilly Doche, swank Manhattan milliner, defended the present preposterousness of women's hats: "These are anxious times and conditions are disturbed, so it is no wonder that women go out and buy gayer hats than usual. ... To be attractive women should have what the French call esprit both inside and on top of their heads...
...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...