Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of Chicago police last week. Hold-Up. Into the gay, smoke-filled ball room of the Palm Gardens road house came six young men with familiar faces. It was their fifth visit. Dutifully the swaying guests lined up along a wall, dutifully handed over $1,700 in cash, $7,500 in jewelry. But eager to please, the "baron robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels to all women who consented...
Seven tankers under construction were sold for $16,800,000. Of this sum, $3,840,000 was in cash, the balance in first mortgage notes. Then the notes, face value $13,493,000, were sold for $2.940,000 to a company close to the purchaser of the tankers...
...beady, defiant eyes. She began by trying to wreck a Medicine Lodge grogshop with an umbrella. In later forays her weapons were bricks and stones wrapped in old newspapers. These she hurled through mirrors, lewd paintings, rows of glassware. With her famed hatchet she chopped up cherry bars, furniture, cash registers, beer kegs. Her battle cry to her followers was: "Smash, women. Smash...
That balance plus the subscriptions collected in cash from the students on Registration day this fall make a total of $7,068.42 cash on hand. Although the exact total has not yet been ascertained, the money pledged but thus far unpaid is sufficient to bring the total over $12,000, from which figure the budget is calculated...
...through failure to appreciate a responsibility toward the large body of undergraduates in whose interests such services are performed. The average student who wearily wends his way through lines of registration desks, CRIMSON and Lampoon agents, laundry or pressing solicitors, is prone to overlook the full significance of the cash contribution or pledge filled out in impatient anticipation of escaping the toils of enrolment...