Word: nabob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Calcutta there go each year to New York and Boston 68 great vessels bearing cargoes of jute fibre and burlap cloths, raw materials for carpets, rugs, bagging, sacking, scrims, tarpaulins. Homely though the cargoes be, they bring a nabob's revenues to the ship owners. To gain Indian trade, ship captains two centuries ago piratically cut each other's throats. Last week operators seeking the same trade punctiliously cut their own rates...
...Hornsby Day in St. Louis and he had hinted at retirement "some day." McGraw is 54. It would not be surprising to see him give up baseball when his contract as Manager of the Giants expires in 1929. On that "some day" Coogan's Bluff will lose its nabob, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (see p. 16) will lose an old neighbor and Manhattan will lose one of its most significant Irishmen...
...Prefect, who is nabob of the sergents de ville, or policemen, ordered his force of men to guard the street corners in the busiest sections of the city. Automobile drivers were told to honk frequently, to use the full power of their headlights. The only effect was to light up the fog without penetrating it and to cause such a din by the honking as to force the usually voluble French into an exhausted silence. None the less, only a few minor accidents from collision were reported...