Word: touting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...
...Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where he is with...
Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
...meeting will be addressed by Professor E. K. Rand '94, president of the Academy, and there will be papers by Professor T. F. Tout, and Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin and visiting lecturer at Harvard...
TAKES THE LEAP WITH RACE TRACK TOUT...