Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mooned at Her Royal Highness, the Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, last week, craning their necks and peering Moonward, as she ascended for the first time in an airplane-favorite vehicle of Their Belgian Majesties who often fly cross-Channel...
...horseback and in carts from the ends of the country to hear him. He stood up before them, a most unprepossessing figure, ill-dressed, half his face concealed by a heavy beard, the other half by thick convex spectacles, for he was nearly blind. He talked to them rapidly, often allegorically and often inchoately. They gave him a reception so passionately loyal, so adoring that it was touching...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
...Broadway game, an itinerant and expensive Manhattan crap tournament, is often patronized by 0. K. Coakley, Long George, Dollar John, Titanic, Fred Perry, the Elk City Flash...
Gangsters and gunmen have names that describe their talents. The Rough Riders of Jack the Dropper, were led by Kid Dropper, so called because in the early days of his career, he often pounced on children pitching pennies, beat them to earth and seized their coins...