Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated, debated, debated the Boulder Dam bill and passed it; sent the measure to conference (see below...
...visitors had come to see the convicts' annual show. A cast of 60 criminals sang, danced, wisecracked through the musical comedy No, No, Nanette...
What takes them, or took them, to the little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow...
Rothstein was the big loser. At the end of the sitting he had to give his IOU for $349,000. He gave another IOU for $49,000 in cash lying on the table, which he shoved into his pocket. "See you later," he told them, and went...
...River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot us. So, you see, as far back as 1913 Bolivia had just quietly annexed a good piece of Paraguay as far down as the twenty-fourth parallel...