Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones...
Strangest of all, most of the tales were true. So memorable was Queen Marie that Negroes still go by thousands to a nameless tomb in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb...
...called barometers of business do not register every day. Last week four of them, including several of the most important, made their mid-summer reports, caused businessmen 1) to smile. 2) to nod their heads sagely, 3; to raise their eyebrows in mild surprise, 4) to scratch their heads in serious thought...
...famed Dorade, owned by Roderick Stephens Jr., 23, who was her captain last week and his brother Olin, 24, her designer. On corrected time, Flame dropped into third place and another U. S. boat, Henry and Sherman Morss's schooner Grenadier, was second. Sixth and last was the scratch boat Ilex. Said Robert Somerset, skipper of the Flame: "Flame went fast but so did Dorade and it was difficult to shake her off, although she is a much smaller boat...
Under its able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins the University of Chicago has come through Depression with hardly a scratch. President Hutchins knows how hard it is to up teachers' salaries once reduced. Except in the University's separately-budgeted medical school, where salaries this year go down 10% to 20%, he has allowed no cuts in staff or pay. But he has, in the past two years, eliminated 300 duplicate or overlapping courses from the University's curriculum...