Word: collected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divided into small farms. In the 20th Century bootleggers made it a hideout. When he was a boy, Amos Kilgore Gordon of Parkersburg, W. Va. used to visit his grandfather's farm on Blennerhassett Island. He remembers swimming out into the river with his brother to collect driftwood logs washed down by the Johnstown Flood. When he grew up, he went to work for Standard Oil, is now vice president and treasurer of Standard of Louisiana. Last week Mr. Gordon bought up all the rest of Blennerhassett Island that his family did not own. The Federal Government, naturally...
...Collect your fees when they are due. It is a well recognized fact that many malpractice suits are started because physicians try to force payment from delinquent patients...
Married, father of two boys and two girls, Author Austin now lives on the Avenue Franco-Rasse in Paris, lists his preference in life as a full bank account, likes to travel, collect books...
...devised an escapement for clocks, fought with a rival watchmaker who claimed his invention. He became the protégé of a minor palace official, purchased the office of secretary of the royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly left poorer than he had ever been...
...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...