Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bingo, the churchly gold mine, grossed $21,703,569 in New York State during the half year ending in March, the State Lottery Control Commission reported last week. According to the commission, 5,998,858 people played 25,843 games, run by 1,236 organizations. The biggest moneymaker was the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood, in Queens, Long Island, with a six-month profit...
...friend of mine commented recently that he thought the Irish cleaning lady at home was better qualified than most of the professors he knew, especially in the Government Department, to hold an active part in the Federal Government. His reasons were based primarily on the fact that this woman was able to look at a problem objectively, and go about finding a solution without the philosophizing and moralizing which seems to hamper many government efforts these days. This is, I think, what our national government needs--more practical solutions and loss philosophizing about them...
...book of mine called This Way, Miss, I retold a story about Millionaire Otto Kahn and the hunchback wit, Marshall P. Walsh. The banker and the hunchback were walking along Fifth Avenue, and the banker, pointing to a Christian place of worship, said to the hunchback: "This is my church." The hunchback replied: "I thought you were a Jew." The banker said: "I was a Jew." The hunchback looked up at him, walked a few steps, stopped and looked up at the banker again and said: "You know, Mr. Kahn-I was a hunchback...
...months since South Africa stalked out of the British Commonwealth, gold-mine shares have dropped 30%; gold and foreign exchange reserves have fallen by half since Sharpeville, forcing the government to slash import licenses by two-thirds. Foreign investment is at a standstill. "Not a cent, penny, franc or pfennig is coming in from abroad," says one Johannesburg businessman. "We're in difficult straits...
...afford to take any Bogart picture more seriously than it affects/effects him on the first viewing: that this article is only as off-the-cuff and irrepressibly impudent as any Bick seminar, and no one has a right to insinuate that his Bogart is nicer than mine...