Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year of discovery was 1848. The cry of "Gold!-gold on the American River!" roused the California towns. But it took months for the news to reach the Atlantic seaboard, spread to Europe and the remote Pacific. Then, 100 years ago this winter, the rush began...
...Pyramid Friendship Club craze reached the Eastern Seaboard. New Yorkers added their own characteristic stamp: increasing the ante from $1 to $5 and guaranteeing to pay off $10,240. There were also wild rumors of a $100 Wall Street club, which was supposed to give the lucky winner a cool...
...stories, "Nobody Here is Quite Game Enough," is the most memorable though neither the best written nor the most humorous. It tells about a wild chase two fellows make up and down the Eastern Seaboard attending parties held the same day but several hundred miles apart. Another story, "Banker's Holiday," is a suspiciously whimsical piece for the Lampoon. I say 'suspiciously' because I was expecting some dirty little hoax at the conclusion, but the author maintains the fantasy through the ending, and, except for its length and occasional awkwardness of diction ("Tom began to laugh. 'Oh hell,' he choked...
...pistol-brandishing robber held up the Seaboard Finance Co. in Tacoma, Wash., found there was only $100 in the till, muttered: "It isn't worth it," and stalked out emptyhanded...
...northeastern seaboard, upwards of a million people will follow the game by radio and television, with Harvard and Yale men across the nation receiving joint reports through news tickers provided by alumni associations and clubs of both colleges...