Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow (TIME, May 9) on which he scooped up an $8,000,000 loan, payable in Soviet goods, repayable in Turkish. Last week, Premier Ismet fraternized with Premier Mussolini, sipped his Asti spumante, swallowed his spaghetti, toyed with his black olives and figuratively held out an upturned Turkish palm. After dinner Il Duce entertained his Turkish friend by playing the violin. When Premier Ismet finally left for home he had secured a $15,000,000 loan, one-third in cash, the rest in Italian manufactures...
...work in London for Producer Charles Frohman. Kern got $15 a week, Wodehouse $12. Sally, Sonny, Stepping Stones, Show Boat, Sweet Adeline. . . . Kern had a superstition that shows whose name started with the letter S went better. At least they earned him enough to keep a house boat off Palm Beach, to indulge his penchant for collecting (and reading) rare manuscripts and first editions, so many valuable ones that at auction three years ago they brought...
...born in Bradford, Pa., and worked in its steel mills till he was old enough to go out West and become a cowpuncher. After a few years of that he went to Chicago and made money with a hotel. Presently he was rich enough to spend his winters in Palm Beach, where he started a gambling casino. How much "Bradley's," smartest gaming place in the land, makes per year Col. Bradley is reluctant to state. Some say $5,000,000. Col. Bradley became interested in horses 35 years ago when his doctor advised him to retire and live...
...Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia, "Tom-Tom" Heflin was back upon the Senate floor, smashing a hamlike fist into a pink palm,' ranting and roaring as of old, crying, "My God, Senators, think of that...
...lamed in a race at Louisville. "Sonny" Whitney had two other entrants left. His aunt had six eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat...