Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what about Prohibition? [Here Mr. Smith took an ostentatious stoup of water while his audience whooped.] null actually spending $100,000,000 a year in a senseless, useless, fruitier attempt to enforce an unenforceable statute. Who says that? Why. the Wickersham Commission! [Loud laughter.] Think of the billions...
...Bobby Jones twice as many votes as his nearest rival. This year the balloting was closer. Out of the panel of ten, selected from 100 nominees, Pennsylvania's bulky, bristle-haired Barney Berlinger finally won by two votes, 424 for him to 422 for sleek little Helene Madison, null swimming champion. who had 70 votes more than Helen Wills Moody...
...Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams, who has a little farm in the San Fernando Valley and rules the valley's gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance and to drink as much wine as they could hold. One who did himself particularly well...
...been to the commissioner's office and also 'uptown' [14th Street] twice. Mr. Hickin insisted he had been told 'uptown' that 'everything was O. K.' " By "uptown" and "14th Street" the N. G. L. lawyer said he meant Tammany Hall, whose null was then on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that he considered N. G. L. comparatively lucky, that he had feared "a further squeeze" of $250,000. He added that North German Lloyd berthed her ships all over the world but "never has to hire lawyers...
...super-ship with which they will challenge Cunard's. (Both liners will be "faster than the fastest and larger than the largest" now extant.) Up to last week the French Line had put roughly three times more money than Cunard into actual construction, namely 300,000,000 francs null Suggested name for the Ile de France's super-super-sister: Normandy, since that province fronts the Atlantic and appeals most romantically, with or without roses, to U. S. citizens...