Word: coin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where the U. S. did in 1932. There will be no revolution if and only if the universally admired Gaston Doumergue can stay in power and force real reform on the Chamber of Deputies. Fear of another war is seriously hampering the recovery of French industry. Frenchmen are hoarding coin because they fear that war will close the banks, destroy industries...
...House team by a score of 5-2, with only one of the matches being defaulted, this time by the Brooks men, while the Elephants managed to eke out a 4-3 win over the Adams House aggregation. No matches had to be decided by the flip of a coin, as has been the case before, since all the games were over before darkness made further play impossible...
...city of slums, grimy schools, furtive assignations, venal officials, speakeasies, dingy hall bedrooms, cigar-stuffy offices and law courts, is not a pleasant metropolis but it is a long way from being a city of the dead. The speech of its inhabitants, broken, illiterate, suggestive, rings like true coin of the realm, worn from much handling. And the scene is presided over by a creator who tempers her justice with mercy...
...help me, sor"--she began, fidgeting the while, but the Vagabond had already melted with compassion. He dug deep into his pocket, found the coin, gave it to the old woman, and passed on. Her thanks were a mumbled blessing, and she hurried to recross the street, for there was another pedestrian approaching--A pedestrian whose saddle shoes were new, whose bow tie was immaculate, and whose pockets were, no doubt, deeper...
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE-Sir Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...