Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is my economic and social philosophy, and, incidentally, my political philosophy as well. I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is the philosophy of 1936 America...
When Dutch Schultz was murdered in Newark last October, Torrio, sought for questioning, was located sunning himself in Miami. Internal revenue agents went after him in earnest, discovered that he was at the bottom of a ring which was "cutting" legal liquor, selling it under Government tax stamps. When State Department authorities sent word last fortnight that Torrio was applying again for a passport, revenue agents mailed him a decoy registered letter, arrested him at the White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client...
...Evolution of Crime showed a foreshortened dead man and, surrounding it, the story of how he got that way, beginning with a visit to a burlesque show. John A. Mapes, investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture's excitement were an approaching water spout, a shark, several drunken fishermen, an octopus assaulting a mermaid and Mapes's realistic way of making his mermaids' breasts swim pendulously in water...
...Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...
During the bottom of Depression, forums sprouted spontaneously throughout the nation. The current issue of School Life, organ of Commissioner Studebaker's Office of Education, reports that more than 1,000 forums are still functioning, concentrated chiefly in the East and Midwest. Favorite discussion topic, said School Life, is International Affairs, with Economic Recovery a close second...