Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grimsby, England, the crew of the schooner Gladys swore that their black cat, frightened by a tempest, had turned white overnight...
...drawn on the account of His Holiness, and asked for the whole sum in clean, new banknotes, to be used in charitable distribution. Even Dictator Mussolini has not made many Italian banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start...
...special cars will be engaged for the trip, and will serve as overnight headquarters in the railroad yards of each city. May entertainments of every type are being planned for the musicians, whose appearances inmost of the cities have been arranged by the local Harvard Clubs...
...recall, however, that in 1907, with call money at 125%. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou conferred with J. P. Morgan, put $25,000,000 of Government funds into Manhattan banks, halted the Panic. They remembered too the Northern Pacific crash of 1901. when, after Northern Pacific stock had gone overnight from $150 to $1,000 a share, the House of Morgan, representing the late great James J. Hill and the House of Kuhn, Loeb, representing the late great Edward H. Harriman, compromised at $150 a share, saved from ruin many a short. Then there was the U. S.-England...