Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things delight the Brothers Mencken more than a broken neck. Henry L. has been breaking them, as a critic for years. Now his younger bachelor brother, August, a Baltimore civil engineer, has taken time out to collect this anthology of descriptions (from contemporary sources) of 100 more or less sensational hangings...
...individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
...annual Phillips Brooks House Old Clothes Drive, designed to collect students' discarded wearing apparel for the benefit of local welfare organizations, will get under way this week, Thomas M. Stanton '44, who is in charge of the drive, announced yesterday...
...Corp. Their own commission was 5%. Out of jail, they joined Partner Zelcer in their Manhattan office, and arranged with Brewster to handle the sale abroad of its Buffalo fighters. They operated as the "Brewster Export Corp.," charged up to 12½% commission, and were in a position to collect on sales of parts to Brewster and sales of Brewster planes abroad. They stood to make hundreds of thousands of dollars before war's end. They also bought into Hayes and Brewster, acquiring some 10% of the stock of each...
...Saloonkeeper Marlene is quite at home in her rough-&-tumble role. Strong men quiver as she coaxes them on with: "Anything you can win you can collect." Nobody but Miner Wayne, who has already had the best years of Cherry's life, collects much. He gets her, his appropriated mine, and a beautiful going-over to boot. All ends well in the sturdiest of melodramas...