Word: rico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Little Caesar is Rico, gangster, an able, hard-working author's serious attempt to put a contemporary U. S. type into U. S. literature...
...regular Italian, as he boasts, Rico was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He drank only milk. He gave diamonds for wear not to his women but to himself. Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant view. He wanted some day to have wealth equal to that of the Big Boy, a Chicago politician who protected gangsters from the legal consequences of any crime but murder...
...Behns already operate communication systems in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Argentine, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay. Last week they announced that I. T. & T. had secured rights for the operation of wireless telephone and telegraph in Peru and Colombia. With this acquisition, the entire west coast of South America and the east coast south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, found its wireless industry in U. S. hands...
...Porto Rico, Roosevelt...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that...