Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underworldlings left with appreciable means. He has peddled spurious stocks on two continents-in dry oil wells, flooded Florida land, non-existent glass casket companies-since he professionally laid down his razor in Chicago twelve years ago. At one time he bought an exhausted African platinum mine, dressed Negroes up in muddy work clothes, took photographs of them, prepared literature for a grand swindle in London. He had just bought postage to distribute the literature when a newspaper exposed his knavery. Incorrigible Jake the Barber sued the British Government for the postage, lost the suit. He returned...
...number. Editor George Teeple Eggleston resisted the temptation to fill the book with reprints of 50-year-old drawings and text. The cover is a dainty color-photograph of a group modelled in soap by Lester Gaba-a girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together between...
...collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract bridge be the most exciting of pastimes. The New York Herald-Tribune...
...Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials to present as the new Minister from Panama. A Hoover handshake was all Charles Hann Jr., U. S. vice president of the Federation of Interallied Veterans, wanted. The President also found time to step out on the South Grounds and receive the first platinum medal ever struck off by the Philadelphia mint-as honorary chairman of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission...
...refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...