Word: adonises
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The underworld's Gaudy Era, when that wealthy foursome, Lucky Luciano (prostitutes), Joe Adonis (bootlegging), Meyer Lansky (industrial rackets) and Jimmy Hines (politics), played golf at swank Hot Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale...
Painter Poussin was born near Paris in 1594, worked there until in 1624 he scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of...
¶ Meantime, sea-loving Franklin Roosevelt journeyed the farthest north that he had been while President. Dogged by fogs which delayed the comings & goings of his mail planes, he cruised on the Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since...
TIME underrates slightly Paul McNutt's home-coming in the eyes of Hoosiers. To us he was a conquering hero come home, king for a day, featured profusely by the three city papers (two of which are Republican). And why not-on a hot day when there's...
Prayerful and penitent last week were six Roman Catholics of Montreal-Albert Desjardins, Adonis Paquette, Alfred L'Archeveque, Lyall Huet, Edouard Pharon, H. N. Bordeleau. For four months they had been excommunicated, damned, cut off from the Sacraments of their Church. Reason: they had "dared cite" their Archbishop in...