Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time, Groucho's make-up was completely erased, and, after he had donned his horn-rimmed glasses, he looked a strange mixture of the legal and the professorial. One would almost have decided that there wasn't a trace of the typical actor about him until the eye paused doubtfully at the spectacle of pleated trousers...
...When asked if she had inherited any of her father's talent for sculpture, she replied that her only art lay in moving her legs; but that she liked dancing so well that she intended to make it her life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
...forged Illinois license and college diploma, ask for a license from that State, which would be issued perfunctorily. Soon they would return to Illinois, show the license from the neighboring State; demand a complementary one from Illinois. This method, while devious, enabled them to obtain legitimate licenses difficult to trace to their spurious source...
...Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house of Morgan will have about 2% of the 12,250,000 P. & G. shares...