Word: conned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
...Conference which authorized the League to stage the World Conference. In London the Press was buzzing with the Lausanne agreement proper and its supplementary "gentleman's agreement" (TIME, July 18). Rising to address the House of Commons. Sir John announced the existence of a third agreement or Accord de Con fiance between the French Government and His Majesty...
Inhaled Ions. Harvard's assistant professor of industrial hygiene Constantin Prodromes Yaglou is studying the effects of atmospheric electricity on health. The de pendence of gout and rheumatism, among other ailments, on weather conditions seem related to the electric charge, or ion con tent, of the air. In an empty, well-ventilated room the ionization is the same as outdoors, but falls off rapidly in crowded rooms. Dr. Lewis Richard Roller described a machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception...
After seeing Is My Face Red? and Love is a Racket, audiences may have been amused by studying colyumists pro & con. If the subject has obsessed them, they can go further...
...description of his $3,000,000 plant one discovers the secret of Warden Lawes's success. Mechanical details of organization are duly attended to, but predominant throughout is the personal, the human element. In focusing his attention, Lawes turns almost involuntarily from administration to the individual, the unhappy "con," fighting his way back to decent society. Consequently one is not surprised when the third section of the work unrolls to find therein a passionately sincere plea for more intelligent treatment of prisoners...