Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here to share it, we would come out with a very good standard of living for the first time in all history. That's the most important material thing that's happened to the human race since the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel...
Died. Samuel Alexander Scribner, 82, onetime "King of the Burlesque Wheel"; in Bronxville, N.Y. He ran away from home as a boy to join the circus, spent 20 years with tent shows. At the turn of the century he organized the Columbia Amusement Co. and gained control of all the burlesque theaters between Omaha and Boston. He retired in 1916, but seven years ago he came out of retirement briefly to help glorify Gypsy Rose...
...little side-wheel steamer began to take trippers to Coney from Manhattan at 50? a head. Later came horsecars, and then several railroads. Roughnecks, sports, plug-uglies and vulgar politicians began to jostle nice people. In 1920, when the subway reached Coney, people from the-city's steaming tenements could get dunked for two nickels, by simply wearing bathing suits under their outer clothes, discarding the latter when they got to the beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses...
Into a palmy Bombay hotel purrs Mr. Gable, mustachios akimbo. He is a high-hat English jewel thief posing as a Lloyd's of London sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck...
...with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then, early on the morning of Jan. 24, after a party at the club, the earl's body was found on a lonely road, slumped over the wheel of his car. There was a bullet hole in his head. Some weeks later Sir Jock was arrested for the murder...