Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body, apparently brought by invalids as votive offerings. Palestine. And when Jehu was come . . . Jezebel heard...
...Mayor Gaynor, revealed that without risking her own money, she had made a profit of $72,000 between 1919 and 1926 on a marginal stock account opened in her name by her husband's good friend, the late Harry Payne Whitney. Mr. Webb explained that "we were at Palm Beach in Bradley's place playing roulette with 50? chips when Mr. Whitney walked in. Addressing my wife and the girls, he said: 'That is a foolish way to try to make money. I can make some real money for you.' And I think he said...
...dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted by bespectacled Major General Dennis Edward Nolan, Mrs. Roosevelt led the marchers in stately procession around the ballroom while some 1,000 guests looked...
...because the Federal Reserve System thus holds in the palm of its hand the whole program of government deposit creation that official or unofficial Administration control is imminent. For the banking system, by virtue of the innumerable camouflages which it affords for direct "flat" purchasing power expansion, has been chosen by the government as its printing press, and it is unlikely that the government will idly watch Nine Men throw monkey wrenches into the equipment...
...Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau). A young man engaged in painting a portrait is suddenly disturbed to find, in the palm of his hand, a surprising deformity: two human lips which engage him in a fragmentary conversation. The young man succeeds in transferring these lips to a statue of a young woman, who advises him to walk through a mirror. Having done so, the young man finds himself in the Hotel des Folies Dramatiques where, peeking through keyholes, he witnesses a horrid scene between an old lady and a child whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges...