Word: shaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...
...days later, at the hour of 4 a. m., somebody threw half a brick and a salt shaker through the window of Mrs. Maude Wilson's coffee shop...
Some 150 Manhattan speakeasies paid Down-Shaker Harris some $25,000 over a period of several weeks. He played the game at both ends, often telephoning to local Prohibition headquarters to "squeal" on proprietors he had found obdurate...
Last week, Down-Shaker Harris was arrested for impersonating an officer and for extortion. What exposed him was irate proprietors telephoning Prohibition headquarters to complain that they had already paid their protection fees and did not want to be further imposed upon...
...Vagabond is afflicted with a conscience that every year has sent him rushing back to stores on December twenty-fourth and a half to exchange Cousin Ned's pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding...