Word: bootleged
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...other side of the scrimmage line, Dartmouth exhibited a steady though short-gaining ground offense, and a very successful passing attack. Whenever a crucial play came up, quarterback Clayton usually relied on the passing game. Three times he pulled the optional bootleg pass and run. When the halfbacks didn't come up, he ran; when they did, he passed to the unprotected receivers they had abandoned. The really tragic part of it all was that on each occasion either all the defending backs, or none of them, came up to deal with Mr. Clayton...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...
...boosted the wet cause. Thousands of factory workers and servicemen imported bootleg liquor from Missouri. Kansas boys, raised on lemonade, went away to war, learned there was something more exhilarating, came home demanding more of the same. Bootleggers rejoiced and multiplied; bonded liquor went to $16 a fifth...
...crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That was fine with the Post-Dispatch. It suspected a tie-up between gambling interests and Illinois Governor Dwight...