Word: palme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 gangster of the U. S. (TIME, March 24), last week entered Florida by train from Chicago, journeyed on to Miami where he took up his residence at his Palm Island estate. Many a good Miamian was dismayed. The Miami Daily News, in front-page editorials by Editor-Owner James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, had been vigorously campaigning against Capone as a menace to the community's good name. Brother Albert Capone had been arrested for vagrancy. State authorities, however, could not touch Brother Alphonse because, smart, he had secured a Federal injunction...
...Toddy: fermented palm juice wine, not unlike Mexican pulque (cactus wine...
...waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...
...Only yesterday the Mahatma said." she cried in her shrill voice, " 'Women should play a greater part in our non-violent fight than men, for women are the incarnation of non-violence!' We women must go into the forests and uproot all the palm trees. Toddy* is the ruin of Mother India...
...ever seen it in 40 years of seafaring. Deduced by Capt. Rostron: this shift is responsible for Manhattan's milder win- ters, heavier fogs. Predicted by Capt. Rostron: if the Stream's shift continues many more years, a climate for Manhattan like Bermuda's, "palm trees on Long Island...