Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night he and his crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...
Like other clubs, the White Sox management does not announce players' salaries, but Appling is the highest paid performer on a sixth-place club that is going nowhere this year, and it is generally believed that he gets about $25,000. His pretense of laziness is an affectation. He is full of hustle and hates to lose a close game. Once, after the Sox lost a 1-to-0 heartbreaker, Luke brooded through his dinner and threw it up afterward. This year he has been evicted from four games for arguing too strenuously with umpires...
...Castor Oil. Put this way, as it often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...
...winter long, while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...
...Mexican-American boys in zoot suits who are attacked by club-swinging sailors the night before they are to join the Army...