Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, a bullock was slaughtered, in its stomach found: seven pounds of nails, several pieces of copper wire, a silver brooch, a shoe buckle, a rubber boot and a derby hat. The bullock was pronounced healthy, its steaks pronounced tender...
...Hearst by flying all over Europe with commissions to buy antiques. He did not know much about antiques, but he learned quickly, did his job well. Almost as flashy a dresser as Publisher Roy Howard, Frank Earl Mason was known as the only correspondent who ever travelled with a shoe trunk...
...illustrate the parlous state of affairs the managers pointed to Nicholas Zographos, "Nicky the Greek." greatest gambler in Europe. M. Zographos is head of the Greek gambling syndicate which operates the casinos' baccarat banks. Last week as was his custom Nicky the Greek sat behind the shoe at Deauville. Normally the baccarat banker at Deauville is playing against $10,000 to $20,000 on each card. Last week the great M. Zographos sat at a table where the total stakes amounted to just...
Best talent in the show is droll Will Mahoney. With a hammer on each shoe and a sad expression on his face he makes music by dancing on a giant xylophone? the ''Mahoneyphone.'' Chicago theatre-goers saw this act tried out last year in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook...
August's advent revealed no improvement in the general level of U. S. business. Although shoe factories and wool mills were busy, basic industries remained prostrate. Earnings statements continued to make mostly poor reading...