Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 48, of Palm Springs, Calif. disguises the fact that he is one of the country's most prolific writers for the pulp press by a variety of pseudonyms. Far harder to conceal is his amazing family. Last March Mrs. Bedford-Jones II found herself in Chicago being sued for $200,000 for alienation of affections by Mrs. Bedford-Jones I. Taking the stand for her stepmother, Daughter Helen Bedford-Jones, 20, testified as follows against her mother...
...East-West series to keep them busy. How frivolous this series has become was demonstrated by the fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla. Harris lost his match to Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten Leonard Patterson of Los Angeles the day before, but those were the only points East won. Hines thrashed saturnine Manuel Alonso, onetime Spanish Davis Cup star, playing for the East, 6-3, 7-5, and the series...
...Hitler's crack detachment. Soon a big plane coasted down out of the hot sky. From it stepped a heavy-set Nurnberger with a closely-cropped head. Beneath his scowling brows and knifelike nose twitched a small black "Hitler mustache." Not in Nazi regalia, the hero wore a Palm Beach suit and his perspiring head gleamed hatless in the sun. Snapping to attention, the Special Guard saluted His Excellency Julius Streicher. Governor of Franconia, Big Boss of Old Nurnberg and idol of all Germans who hate Jews. In his heavy right fist Herr Streicher gripped his personal trademark...
Spot cash actually slipped into China's palm last week: $100,000 as a gift from the American Red Cross to be used in succoring the estimated 10,000,000 victims of China's current flood-famine. The gift thus worked out at 1? per victim...
...lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...