Word: croak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre time, and something more than 150,000 people were proceeding with various speeds in Mr. Whalen's general direction. But almost before they had time to discuss him (as most of them did) they found themselves seated before curtains, twitteringly awaiting visions of fair women or the croak of tragedy. This unprecedented condition-the theatres filling on time-was caused by Commissioner Whalen's having resolved "to solve the traffic problem...
While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away...
Police captured Mr. Lyle, and brought him before Magistrate William Croak of the Stapleton Police Court, Staten Island. Attorneys for Mr. Lyle secured his release on $5,000 bail to have a sinus operation. Dr. John McCoy of Manhattan operated for sinus trouble, removed the inflamed infected tonsils, studied the intestinal disorders, the low blood pressure. The five abscessed teeth were pulled...
Since Alexander sighed-if he ever did-for more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski...