Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most top newsmen Ed Hill had his turn at Hollywood. Fox Films sent him to Italy and Spain in 1926 to stage a beauty contest, bring home the winner. In Barcelona he was considering three candidates when he spied a non-contestant on the sidelines, handed her the palm. She is Maria Alba, who played opposite Douglas Fairbanks in Mr. Robinson Crusoe...
...Palm Beach...
...Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...
...Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side at the new Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. men of many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox Greeks, 31 Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha'i. Last...
...returned and bought Elbert H. Gary's mansion at 94th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He bought her more expensive clothes and jewels (including one of the world's finest emerald necklaces) than are worn by any other woman in Manhattan. He provided her with a house at Palm Beach, built her a magnificent house on Long Island...