Word: nez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano win a million francs at a single sit ting." With...
...this sum $250,000 had changed hands in four minutes. Auctioner Muller could well afford to smile on the River Amstel. His firm had received the customary 10%, amounting in this case to $92,500. Displaying paintings to serried rows of gentlemen with beards and pince-nez, soliciting their cash, seemed more than ever a genteel and happy profession...
Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...
...play. R. U. M. Whortleberry, graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until it has been carefully explained...
...important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...