Word: mushroomer
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...suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates ever won more than a couple of dollars. The Denver police never bothered Soapy, but competitors sometimes did, and when the Colorado silver boom started he moved to the mushroom town of Creede, prospecting for prospectors...
...Switzerland has refreshed Bloch's musical powers, given him leisure to indulge his passion for mushroom-hunting, made him jovial. His gloomy look vanished with his beard, which he shaved off as a surprise for Suzanne when he met her in Genoa two summers...
...mushroom days of the motor trade, air-cooled cars like Knox and Holmes were common. Only Franklin has survived. It survived not so much be cause of the winterproof feature as because of its quality. One of Franklin's best markets has long been among such mechanically inept persons as doctors, authors, professors who want big car com fort with small car economy. Founder Franklin prized his reputation for fine materials and scrupulous workmanship. Franklin, always a high-priced car, sells today from...
...joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work (see cut). There was no special realism about the Olsen submarinescapes last week to indicate they were actually done under water. Coral Outpost was a pastel blue-green, showed a film of sunlight filtering down to brownish mushroom coral, three pink, blue and yellow Yellow-Tail fish. Sunlit Coral Alle was a gentle blue and yellow composition of coral polyps and purplish-brown sea fans. Aside from their paleontological significance the pictures suggested pleasant decorations for yachts, bathrooms, villas...
...jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom hats, red tassels and plum colored jackets, plays 48 drums, 48 gongs, eight long slabs of hardwood to be struck by jade hammers, and 24 flutes of piercing shrillness...