Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their benches and listened. Prosecutors snarled at lawyers, lawyers snarled at prosecutors. Bulging briefcases spilled their contents on gleaming tables. People talked about German corporations, champagne parties at the Ritz, a suicide, millions of dollars' worth of stock, thousands of dollars' worth of Liberty bonds, burned bank records, conspiracy. . . . Many times the narrative became incoherent, drowned in a flood of legal monstrosities. . . . Sometimes the twelve jurors had to poke each other to fight sleep...
...keys. Back in the cells, a voice screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country to investigate. It shocked him to see flies around the bullet holes in a black, dangling Thing...
...peasant trundled his cart in from the suburbs of Lyons last week. The cart was heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...
Defeat of an attempted bank robbery--American style--in Liverpool has resulted in odious comparisons. One gathers that the British press believes the police system of the United States to be an object of both tears and laughter. They do these things, say the Englishmen, much better abroad. American police are well trained they admit, and they admit, well equipped; but with half the equipment the British manage to get twice the results. Somewhere, somehow, there has been a mistake...
...Last year Capt. Castro of Chile was first of all flyers to cross the Andes. -Not, however, Sergt. A. G. Elliott, who started from England with Pilot Gobham but died when a Bedouin rifleman, strolling on the bank of the Euphrates River, took a potshot "for sport" at the strange thing passing overhead. Not Sergeant Ward, either, who volunteered for Elliott's place and flew with Cobham from Arabia to Australia. It was one Captel, a mechanic who substituted for Ward in Australia for the flight home...