Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betting windows rushed a fortunate few to collect $43 for every $2 wager, longest Derby odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...which was "cutting" legal liquor, selling it under Government tax stamps. When State Department authorities sent word last fortnight that Torrio was applying again for a passport, revenue agents mailed him a decoy registered letter, arrested him at the White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client was now a respectable realtor who had long ago settled his in come tax troubles with Washington, a U. S. Commissioner set Torrio's bail at a prohibitive $100,000. In the police lineup Torrio was asked where...
...term bill. But the letter that was sent to commuters in February, asking them to come to Dudley Hall and "renew" their membership for the second semester, could well give rise to misunderstanding. You don't ask a person to come renew a contract when you're trying to collect an amount that is already owing under the original contract...
...completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts by a group of proletarian mummers was arranged, the critics applauded vigorously, Mr. Shaw got a Hollywood contract and, since shrewd Broadway has caught on to the fact that one does not have to believe in collectivism to collect on the new vogue of social drama, it was not long before Producer Yokel, whose most notable previous theatrical venture was the incredibly lucrative Three Men on a Horse, had arranged an uptown presentation of Bury the Dead...
...since payment of the five dollar charge for the second semester was clearly pledged by the would-be defaulters, the imputation of skullduggery on the part of the Dudley committee is as absurd as it is false. And unlike a creditor nation, the University is in a position to collect...