Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While pious Mexicans decorated the village church at Ahuacatlan in preparation for Palm Sunday last week, bearded, unkempt J. E. Bristow of San Angelo, Tex., rode into town on the back of an ass. A three-week bandit chase by Mexican Federal troops had ended. Somewhere in the mountains an able kidnaper and bandit chief named Cruz Delgado was dividing $5,000 in gold among his followers. Back in San Angelo Mrs. Bristow received a three-word telegram from her Oklahoma footballer son, Gordon ("Obie") Bristow: DAD WITH ME. Mrs. Bristow cried, "Thank God! Thank God!" and then collapsed...
...beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round the walls of the yellow dining room stalks a procession of tall Mexican goddesses with bird heads. Night after night these rooms were filled with the intelligentsia, the talking, drinking, reciting, bright people...
...Dorchester. The New York Sun said he had been smuggled in a pie wagon to West New York. N. J. Florida's Governor Doyle Carlton heard he was en route to Florida, ordered all state sheriffs to arrest him on sight. Dry agents raided the Capone estate at Palm Island, off Miami, arrested six men but not its absent owner. In Chicago Detective Chief John Stege announced Capone was flying to his Prairie Avenue home...
...Braeburn Road, an adjacent two-car garage and a pair of automobiles to King David, Gedeon, Barak, Samson. Jephthae, Samuel and sundry other mighties of ancient Palestine. Positive is he that they are shortly to reappear on earth. Said he: "I have purposely landscaped the place with palm and olive trees so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come to offer man the chance to become perfect...
...William ("Wild Bill") Mehlhorn, muscular golfer who walks like a sailor and sometimes plays like one: first prize of $5.000 on the windy, many-bunkered, palm-plumed La Gorce course at Miami Beach, beating Horton Smith, who got $2.500, by one stroke. ¶ Slim Maribel Vinson, 17, sophomore at Radcliffe College, in an orange satin suit trimmed with black fur: the national amateur figure skating championship, at Providence...