Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
...When professional thieves are arrested, they rely first on the police ("in hard times a dollar or two or even a drink may be enough"). More difficult arrangements are handled by a fixer who works through the complaining witness, the prosecutor (by trading cases), the bailiff (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. So efficient are fixers that Denver's Ed Blonger for many years kept all his clients out of jail. Chicago's celebrated pickpocket, Eddie Jackson, was arrested "thousands of times," convicted only four times, twice because of factional fights between his political friends...
Though Missionary Brigham Spencer Young has always been called "Spence" and has never been known in Salt Lake City as "Fifth," his claim to the title was thoroughly justified. His grandfather, the first Brigham Spencer Young, is, at 77, a Salt Lake City court bailiff. His father, B. Spencer Young, is an employe of HOLC. Brigham V, popular but not too pious, accepted his mission call with good grace. While the other missionaries were holding a religious meeting in a Manhattan street last week, he confessed: "I didn't go. Another fellow and I went over to the Hollywood...
Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...
...small spot of land, and made fine workmanlike shoes. He ran fourteen miles with a bullet in his groin, eluding a gamekeeper, dismist Luke's offer of assistance scornfully, and died unlacing his boots. Luke's mother, at the beginning of the story threatens to strike the bum-bailiff who has come to eject them from their home and tells him he can thank his damn stars it is the Book of God she is carrying...