Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked the clerk on duty for a Mr. Brown. They were informed that there was no such person in the club. "Well," drawled one of the young men, "I guess you can give us what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days...
...Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He has been known to take a revolver (empty) from a drawer and lay it on his desk while interviewing truculent callers...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...means the only one which preceded a bridge match which compares to an ordinary evening at cards as Waterloo compares to a pillow fight. Mrs. Culbertson dropped her glasses, had them stepped on and finally, with the aid of her husband, found another pair in her lingerie drawer. Editor Frank Crownin-shield of Vanity Fair made a radio speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people of New York and vicinity have not been in such...