Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
Saad did better than well. Disguised as a peddler, cunningly he insinuated himself into the house of Kasir's chief citizen. But when he met the eyes of Evanthia, daughter of the house, he had need of all his Arab cunning. When the household was asleep and Saad's duty was to escape to the city walls, not Evanthia but Evanthia's mother lured him to her room. Honor and duty both satisfied. Saad played an Arab hero's part in the ensuing pillage. Somehow Evanthia escaped him, but back in the pleasant pasture-lands her image gave...
...succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously, had inherited control from the founder, her father, Col. William D'Alton Mann. Under the direction of the baldpated, snowy-whiskered, plug-hatted Colonel, the magazine had a stormy 30-year career as Society's gossip-peddler. The Colonel died in 1920, leaving an estate...
...Arthur was a bright young man and should have been a credit to the ministry, but he was headstrong and impulsive, and time and again mistook fanatical hunches for divine inspiration. To mortify his pride (and incidentally punish Charlotte) he married Anna, who was beautiful, but only a peasant peddler-girl. Anna was pleased as punch, and quite ready to love her handsome husband, but he wanted them to live like brother & sister. She got over that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna...
Glum detectives scoured shops and restaurants, poked suspiciously in closets and cupboards, discovered many an old sock clinking with kopecks. Hardly ever were the hoardings large. An old woman peddler of Kiev who had amassed 800 rubles ($411) vas arrested, others were severely scolded, released. In Moscow, however, secret police arrested nine, including one Bogdanov. speculator; one Simonov, cashier; two private traders by the name of Frolov and Mashkov. Each of these amateur numismatists had assembled nearly $2.500 in coins...