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What Chaos Looks Like

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

—Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

Groucho Asks a Question

In 1929, Groucho Marx was riding high. He and his brothers Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo had made the transition from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood. They had just completed their first talking picture, The Cocoanuts, based on their Broadway musical comedy from 1925. And they were starring on Broadway in a new musical comedy, Animal Crackers. (It would be filmed the following ...

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