Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship of the first direct and regular service to be established between the U. S. and Russia since the War. Other A. E. L. ships will follow at ten-day intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black...
...last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found...
...Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium, arrived in Manhattan, was greeted by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young. She went to stay with her longtime friend...
From Paris to Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...