Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Patrolman George Schuchman. emerged from a cigar store, heard someone (voice not recognized) cry: "Hey, George, those two guys are stealing my gin." Drawing his revolver, determined to fire into the air, the police-man shot one of the hijackers through the head, found 125 bottles of gin in four abandoned parcels. Police inspectors investigated, declared that the patrolman had done his duty...
Meantime many others were moved to speak. Lobbyist Shearer, after saying that he had been helped by receiving confidential information from Naval officials alone, grew suddenly silent, counseled by Daniel Florence Cohalan, able Manhattan attorney...
utility and contracting Brooklynite (self-made), great & good friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, telephoned from Paris to Manhattan for Barber Louis Arico to come and cut his hair in England (TIME, Sept. 16). Barber Arico set sail...
...make Italian liners safer? In Manhattan last week the fact that this problem has just been dealt with by Dictator Benito Mussolini was revealed by a suave, expatriate Roman, Dr. Merigio Serrati, General Manager in the U. S. of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. Said...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...