Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week several thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in specially-built boxes and bleachers around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform. Loudspeakers allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy...
...National movement to outlaw the female practice of demanding hard cash for damaged feelings last week enlisted New York, where many an itching palm has masqueraded as a broken heart. At Albany the State Senate and Assembly passed a bill prohibiting civil suits for alienation of affections, breach of promise and seduction, sent it to Governor Herbert Lehman to sign...
Died. Clifford S. Heinz, 52, vice president and director H. J. Heinz Co. (food products), son of its Founder Henry John Heinz, brother of its President Howard Heinz; of complications following pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Pass throwing and receiving were stressed by the new coach and every available candidate was give a chance along these lines. As in yesterday's session, Harlow divided the men into groups under his assistants, Mike Palm, Rae Crowther, and Wes Fester, and then shifted his own supervision from one bunch to another every few minutes in order to keep personal check on all that is happening in Briggs Cage...
Throughout the afternoon, while the aspirants worked in groups, under regular and volunteer coaches, including Rae Crowther, Mike Palm, Fesler, Jimmy Knox, and Cliff Gallagher, Harlow himself seemed to be watching everything at once. No slip-shod play escaped his notice--nor for that matter did a good performance miss a barked grunt of "That...