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Word: afoul (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught, jailed, later released on $2,000 bond. The entertainment over, the cheer confiscated, dismally the guests went home. It was not the first time that Belle Livingstone-who tells stories about her friends Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Kitchener, Edward VII, King Leopold of the Belgians-has run afoul of the National Prohibition Act. Last April her speak-easy on Park Avenue was padlocked; she was released on bail. Although she did not know it, she was indicted on this charge fortnight ago. Her latest place-formally titled The Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club-was run along the same general lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Darkest America | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...manager of the meet, that Pete Desjardines of Stanford University will be unable to compete. The Californian, whose nine team mates will make the transcontinental journey to Cambridge and are counted on to make the meet one of the most brilliant ever held in a college pool, has run afoul of scholastic difficulties, and will be ineligible to perform in the diving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INELIGIBILITY WILL KEEP DESJARDINES OUT OF SWIM MEET | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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