Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House but Mr. Ford made it a memorable time by giving out, in a press interview at his hotel before the dinner, some advice to young men which seemed a flat challenge to the economic legend embodied in Calvin Coolidge. Said Mr. Ford: "No successful boy ever saved any money. They spent it as fast as they got it for things to improve themselves." Mr. Ford obviously did not have Calvin Coolidge in mind while uttering this maxim...
...might a glib varlet, lacking the nerve lo be an out-&-out racketeer, make money out 'of Prohibition at small personal risk and outlay? One way might be to impersonate a U.S. revenue agent and frighten hush money out of unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld...
...used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
...million dollar gymnasium, although the Athletic Association at present has only enough funds to build the first three floors of the proposed four story structure, according to an announcement given out this morning by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Eager to avail themselves of the money now on hand, and prompted by the pressing need for better facilities for indoor sports, the authorities have decided to take this step toward replacing the antiquated Hemenway Gymnasium...
...recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...