Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo. The big black toe of Congoland was their objective-namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich...
...favorite newsboy and lets fall a hint that such and such a stock is cheap at the current market price, the newsboy has what is known as a "sure thing." If the boy generously lets a traffic policeman in on the secret, he unburdens himself of a "hot tip." If the policeman hesitates to act on the tip, decides first to read How to Invest Money Wisely, by John Moody, he is given the benefit of "financial counsel...
...Syosset, Long Island, where he keeps nine servants, four dogs, many a jewel. On May 13, $14,000 worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner, Mrs. Eleanor Mott, wife of a young plumbing executive and daughter...
...Mosconi is Ever Prospering by God's Grace, and their ancient coat of arms displays two black two-headed eagles and two gold one-headed lions rampant, while from each of the six mouths of these four angry creatures darts a crimson tongue, barbed at the tip...
...biggest and best raid in Manhattan since Prohibition. The following clubs were entered, all simultaneously to prevent a "tip...