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'''Al Capone's own Midnight Frolics Cabaret'''<br /> | '''Al Capone's own Midnight Frolics Cabaret'''<br /> | ||
By about 1926–1931, Capone’s Outfit controlled or "taxed" nearly every liquor-selling nightclub between State Street and Cicero in Chicago. "Al Capone’s Midnight Frolics" became shorthand for any Capone-backed cabaret in the Loop that stayed open until dawn. | By about 1926–1931, Capone’s Outfit controlled or "taxed" nearly every liquor-selling nightclub between State Street and Cicero in Chicago. "Al Capone’s Midnight Frolics" became shorthand for any Capone-backed cabaret in the Loop that stayed open until dawn. | ||
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| + | [[image:RWS_Tarot_13_Death.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]'''an older card, numbered XIII, the one nobody likes to see turn up'''<br /> | ||
| + | the XIII (13) card in the Major Arcana is Death, one of the most misunderstood and symbolically rich cards in the Tarot. | ||
'''Goombah'''<br /> | '''Goombah'''<br /> | ||
comes from the southern-Italian dialect word ''compare'' which means "godfather," "close friend," or "companion." | comes from the southern-Italian dialect word ''compare'' which means "godfather," "close friend," or "companion." | ||
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pikers
A cheapskate, small-time operator, or timid bettor, someone who plays it safe, spends little, or "won’t risk a dime."
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
a non-profit trading venue in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where cheddar cheese (in 40-lb blocks and 500-lb barrels) was bought and sold in weekly sessions. No known scandals before the 1970s that I could find. Rumors, yes, but nothing specifically linked to the WCE.
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Lever Brothers ... Margarine Union ... Unilever ... Cheese Corridor Incursion
the British Lever Brothers and the Dutch Margarine Union merged to form Unilever, with dual headquarters in London and Rotterdam. This was one of the first truly multinational consumer-goods conglomerates, straddling soap, detergents, margarine, and later foods of every kind. The term "Cheese Corridor" isn’t a formal corporate phrase but a nickname historians sometimes use for the Netherlands–Belgium–northern France dairy belt, a corridor of butter, cheese, and milk production that found itself at odds with margarine interests in the early 20th century. In that context, the “Cheese Corridor Incursion” can be understood as the entry of industrial margarine producers (like the Margarine Union / Unilever) into traditional dairy markets, threatening the livelihoods of butter and cheese makers along that corridor. This all smacks of IG Farben in Gravity's Rainbow...
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Al Capone's own Midnight Frolics Cabaret
By about 1926–1931, Capone’s Outfit controlled or "taxed" nearly every liquor-selling nightclub between State Street and Cicero in Chicago. "Al Capone’s Midnight Frolics" became shorthand for any Capone-backed cabaret in the Loop that stayed open until dawn.
the XIII (13) card in the Major Arcana is Death, one of the most misunderstood and symbolically rich cards in the Tarot.
Goombah
comes from the southern-Italian dialect word compare which means "godfather," "close friend," or "companion."
