Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Traylor, of course, does not "trade," "speculate," or "scalp" in the market. As from an Olympian distance the president of Chicago's First National Bank declared: "I would urge consideration of the complete abolishment of floor trading which, as I am informed, has about it most of the characteristics of plain crap shooting (guffaws), and few, if any, more redeeming features than that delightful Ethiopian pastime." (Cheers. Of the 1,000 business leaders present some 600 were Americans...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Rose Provenzano, 19, jilted Ralph Ferrara, 20. He fired six shots at her (one hit her in the shoulder) and one at himself (it furrowed his scalp). She refused to sign a complaint. Said she: "I never realized how much Ralph loved me until he shot me. . . . I'm going to marry...
...take them a great deal of intellectual independence and some courage. Whenever an editor comes out and whacks a public institution (possibly the American Legion) on the head, no matter how justified he may be, a great army of defenders of morals and manners goes into action demanding the scalp of the unfortunate editor...
...winners thus kept clean a record which they have held since their season opened adding the Harvard scalp to their belt on which already hang six. In the opening minutes of play the Eli players sent a fire of shots against Gulick, the Harvard goalie, who let five of them slip by. Salmon was substituted in his place, and in the remainder of the game he stopped 13 out of 15 shots...
...clock the University lacrosse team will oppose Yale on the field behind the Business School. The Eli stickmen, fresh from three victories over Princeton, 8 to 3, Union, 20 to 4, and Dartmouth, 15 to 12, will try to take the Crimson forces into camp for their fourth scalp...