Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Polite, Brewer Busch seldom foams over in public against the law which outlawed his ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League...
Dinner-often with Dr. Stresemann. But he seldom goes on to the theatre and almost never to the night clubs. However, there is a young secretary of the British legation, or a clever attache of the Turkish; and there is really no reason why the wife of the great Foreign Minister who is too fat to dance should not go to night club parties squired by discreet, ambitious gallants, each under the thumb of his Ambassador or Minister. Midnight is early, 2 average, 8 late...
Though having yearly quotas of 100 each, the following regions seldom send immigrants to the U. S.: Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, British Togoland, French Togoland, French Cameroon, Tanganyika, Nauru, New Guinea...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
When Nick F. wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...