Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang's graft, according to Means, came in part from the sale of protection to big New York bootleggers. Means's account of how this graft was collected: he would engage two rooms at a Manhattan hotel. On the table of one room would be placed a huge glass bowl with money in it. 'Leggers would arrive at prearranged hours with their tribute in $1,000 bills. Means would watch them from the next room as they dropped their money into the bowl and departed. In this way 'leggers bought protection without putting money in anybody's hands. Declares Means...
...stood in the dock Mr. Gandhi? like Socrates with the bowl of hemlock? delivered perhaps his greatest oration.* At his British judge the saint thundered...
...workman, repairing the organ in Edsel Bryant Ford's Detroit home, fumbled, dropped the console cover, smithereened a piece of Persian pottery famed to connoisseurs as the Rhages Bowl, valued...
...Park, 111.. George D. Brown exhibited a small goldfish, Blondy, which he had trained to swim up to the top of his bowl when called...
...move. The H.A.A. officials have established a pretty definite policy against post-season games and saw no reason to break a precedent in this case. Only once has this been done and that was when the Crimson football team took a cross-country trip to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon in the Tournament of Roses game a decade ago. If a fourth game were played in the current ice series it would necessarily be a post-season game, for the schedule ended with last Wednesday's Garden tilt...