Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver Dollar...
...dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide gas spigot they had opened; stop a young man who was running about with a candle on a silver serving tray asking loudly for an honest woman said he was Dy Jennies or some one like that. The two of them wanted to carry out a potted palm: they said they had an empty corner in their room it would just fill up nicely. Just as soon...
...history. But the shadow that Arcades as Prince Mike in the headlines of today's newspapers will in ages yet to come have to slink in the company of Judas lscariot. Joseph's eleven brothers. Delilah and other wretches who have sold their kin for a handful of silver. Cornell Daily...
...himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding with voodoo rites a special silver bullet. The far-away sound of tom-toms told Jones...
...back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...