Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much for him, however, and his costly Federal League died in its 2nd year (1915). With racehorses he did better. He bought the services of famed Trainer Sam Hildreth and out of his Rancocas Stables, in 1923, came Zev, world's champion. He bought a yacht, a private car, a Fifth Avenue mansion, an estate at Great Neck...
...Sinclair, he took Fall's son-in-law, Mahlon T. Everhart, aboard his private car in the Washington railroad yards one night and handed over $198,000 in Liberty Bonds, supplementing this sum with $35,000 at his Manhattan office some days later. He was supposed to be buying a one-third interest in a run-down ranch of Fall's at Tres Rios (Three Rivers), N. Mex. They were going to turn the ranch into a country-club. But no club eventuated. Fall used the money to pay off debts and improve the property...
...fired revolvers into the air and at the fugitive. Dodging and twisting through the traffic, James Cox hurtled through Manhattan, ignoring all traffic signals, deaf to the cries of spectators and the reports of the police pistols. At last, thinking he had eluded his pursuers, James Cox stopped his car at the entrance to the Biltmore Hotel, leaped out, tripped on the curb, staggered into a heap on the pavement, and cut his forehead. A policeman leaped upon him, secured a doctor to sew up the cut. The doctor, after a look at James M. Cox Jr., said that...
Going to help his brother, John W. Cox, 21, Harvard student, insisted upon riding in the club car of a Boston-to-New York train, although he lacked money for the Pullman fare. The conductor tried to oust him. John W. Cox protested and, according to the conductor, became abusive. John W. Cox was removed from the train and jailed overnight in Pelham...
...this has been going on, and continues, here in Massachusetts. At Williams the Junior Student Council has decided to eliminate bootleggers. Its members have drawn their first blood by confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question...