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...Manhattan hosts interrupted the academic calm as best they could. They took the delegates-including Shu Tze of China-to examine a complete museum of bandit instruments. They called upon Shinzo Uno of Japan to show cinemas of police work during the Tokyo earthquake. They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph. By this means, three finger prints were flashed to Chicago and in five minutes two criminals' names were telephoned back. (The third was not in the Chicago files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Without End | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Purity | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

Twenty lusty Italian workmen shouting: "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 30, 1923 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

Friendly inter sectional relations can hardly thrive under such cultivation. PAUL MCK PALMES UNO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Raw Deal for Washington | 5/24/1920 | See Source »

...long since the members of the New York Medical Club were summoned to attend a regular meeting at Dr. Paine's in the following classic style: "Sciens, Socialite, Sobriete." -Doctores! Ducum nex mundi nitu Panes; triticum at ait. Expecto meta fumen tu te and eta beta pi. Super attento uno Dux hamor clam pati, sum parates, homine, ices, jam, etc. Sideror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/3/1883 | See Source »

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