Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...
...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...
...system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more information. The investigation continued...
Coming through the rain at Delaware Water Gap, Pa., last week, was the hulk of Archie Compston, British golfer. He was doing well-one under par on the last nine holes. That gave him a final card of 287 and the Eastern Open championship. Said a rain-vexed U. S. golfer, "High time an Englishman won at golf...
...stopped Assassin Ratchitch as he walked from the Skupshtina. He called at the Ministry of the Interior, sent in his card. It was returned with the message that he would not be received. Hurrying on to a police station, Punica Ratchitch gave himself up. "I shot in self defense at the men I killed," he said, "I thought they were going to attack me. As for Stefan Raditch, I have always worked for the interest of the electorate and the King. I am sorry that I shall be unable to serve so well in future. I am ready...