Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...
...Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...Suave, cultured, fond of clothes and horse-racing, Promoter Rice has long been the prime U. S. schemer. His latest efforts were centered in Boston where he ran the "Boston Curb," dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds...
Departure. Lady Drummond Hay: "We passed from a symphony of silver to golden glory as the lights of New York City scattered themselves beneath us like grains of golden Stardust, tracing patterns strange and fantastic, set with the jewelled brilliancy of ruby, emerald and topaz electric signs...
Successful journalistic writing of the present time must be brief and to the point if it is to command any readers. The Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon in order to comply with this rule has abolished its editorial column, substituting letters from the student body on subjects of general university interest. As a result, any excess verbiage with which the editorial writers might have loaded the paper has been replaced by concise remarks of the individual student...