Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Appearing with his captive before Magistrate Charles Solomon. Milli explained how it was done: the ingenious and germ-defying young man, who said that he was Chester Madzenski, dropped a squashed penny into the slot; it stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...
Said Magistrate Solomon, holding Madzenski in $1,000 bail: "This is the most unique form of larceny I've ever encountered. But it goes to show that dishonesty in any form is still a sucker's game...
...first danced. Last week, after many complicated schisms in the Russian ballet, the troupe was called the Original Ballet Russe. Colonel de Basil was still its director. But its boss, who hoped to keep it going in Manhattan through the winter, was shrewd, bland S. (for Sol, for Solomon) Hurok, famed concert manager...
Lewis N. Sandler '42, Verona, N.J.; Robert B. Seidman '41, New York, N.Y.; Martin H. Slobodkin '41, Malden, Mass.; Frederick L. Smith '41, Lancaster, N.H.; Philip A. Smith '42, Belmont Mass.; Harold W. Solomon '43, New York...
Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, left the care of his 180-acre farm entirely to his widow. For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting...