Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa glumly takes off. "Then as he flew over the Atlantic, his radio caught the chimes of Moscow, and there were choruses of children's voices, jolly, singing, laughing. 'That lucky guy, Grandfather Frost. He brings them what they want. . . Things to live...
...quit because "My educational philosophy and that of the school superintendent were as far apart as the two poles . . ." Other stories dealt with paddling, long a traditional punishment for the unruly at Twinsburg. One student, struck on the nose, was placed under a doctor's care. A girl, caught chewing gum, had it stuck in her hair by a teacher and plastered down with Scotch tape.' The teacher was suspended by Powell for a week but was reinstated by the school board...
...Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief client and business partner eventually gets done...
...Newark, N.J., John L. Sullivan, hunted by police for three years as the ringleader in a $2,000,000 holdup, was caught trying to steal a $23 razor...
...members of the Pinkham Notch ski patrol spent New Year's drying out their clothes--they were caught in the rain the previous afternoon...