Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sedans roared through the night in Chicago's southwest side, last week. The second car drew up alongside the first, poured into it a stream of machine-gun, shotgun and revolver fire. Brakes shrieked; the first sedan careened toward the curb. Like rats leaving a doomed ship, two men jumped out. One sprinted 100 yards, fell on his face on the pavement-dead, full of little holes. The other floundered across a vacant lot, died with seven bullets in his flesh. . . . They, Frank Koncil and Charles Hrubek, were members of "Polack Joe" Saltis' bootlegging gang. Rival thugs...
...interesting effort to curb crime in New York was made not long ago with the passage of the Beaumes law providing life sentences for hardened offenders. The principle of the law was called into question by some jurists at the time of its adoption, and there was the natural doubt as to whether the law would accomplish its purpose. The latest development is a rather humorous one. A sudden increase in violent crime in the city of Washington along with a pronounced decrease in New York has led the authorities to the conclusion that New York gangs are taking...
...from the front pages of the newspapers, one Mr., Wynani Hubbard takes it upon himself to rekindle the fires, thus putting inter collegiate football at present on an equal footing with professional baseball. If these two outstanding American colleges and their graduates do not have enough self interest to curb such wild statements by unauthorized persons they at least owe it to their fellow sportsmen in collegiate athletics to be more discreet...
...last time I saw 'Teddy' Roosevelt," continued Freddy, "was when he was President of the United States. He had been lecturing at the Exchange Club in Boston. I was waiting for him at the curb when he came out. He shook hands with...
TIME'S editors will probably never curb their Roman Catholic instincts enough to advertise, tritely "TIME?Kurt, Klear, Koncise...