Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Durand strode into the First National Bank at Powell. He had a six-shooter on his hip, a .30-.30 rifle in his hands, pockets bulging with cartridges. Bank President Bob Nelson, his three employes and five customers reached for the ceiling. Durand grabbed $3,000 in cash, then started shooting crazily through the bank's windows and walls. "They'll plug me anyway," he told his frightened captives. When he had fired 40 or 50 shots he bound Nelson, Cashier Maurice Knutson and Teller John Gawthrop together by the wrists with rawhide. "Come on, boys...
...management of money. They gave her all proceeds from the smithy except what they needed for personal expenses. She also had small faith in banks. This, says Jimmy Hines, explains why he had no bank account after 1908, why he carried large sums of cash. After he married in 1904 his wife bore him three sons and took care of most of his finances...
...plot deals with the troubles of "Homer Leland" (Roger Lapham '40) in raising enough cash to stage the World's Fair, and through it is woven an implausible little romance of the meets-loses-gets variety. The latter angle is handled in taste and in tune by Bayard Dillingham '40 and David Sheppard '41. The rest of the acting leaves much to be desired, although the cast can blame this with some justice on the book...
...Hayden investigated them carefully, sometimes in person. Once he made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
...Flying Irishman (RKO Radio) is primarily an attempt to cash in at the box office the fame achieved by Aviator Douglas Corrigan in his famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture, for Corrigan is one of the worst actors who ever appeared on the screen. Indeed, cast as himself in a reasonably factual account of his own extraordinarily humdrum career, Corrigan does...