Word: bootlegged
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...when he was a skinny ten-year-old, spelling his father at the organ in a Chicago theater. He quit high school to play in a St. Louis speakeasy, wheeling his battered piano from table to table, collecting $40 to $60 a week in tips from enthusiastic bootleg-whisky drinkers. Later he got a job at a St. Louis radio station, singing, playing the organ, piano and accordion to fill in the morning hours before the regular staff straggled...
...owner of a store within two blocks of the President's house received a bootleg shipment of arms a week ago. He was promptly visited by three of the Yale black marketeers, who tried unsuccessfully to coerce him into raising his prices...
Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...
...Nazi officers, carefully screened P.W.s and recruited youths. Then he set them up in Bereitschaften under direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and light artillery. In equipment they have a better start than did the bootleg German army of the '20s, which was also founded on a cadre of the best officer material...
...both the right half and the fullback, continues veering back and to the left and finally whirls-around to throw a pass. The last two plays everybody should remember. Quarterback Clayton faked again to both backs, clapped the ball on his hip and galloped around end on a bootleg play, provided the defensive halfbacks didn't rush...