Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, ever since last Spring. Our Grover Whalen-sartorial perfection and all-is Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe [TIME, Jan. 9, 1928]. He has absolutely cleaned up the Paris 'peep shows,' which you might compare to the speakeasies of New York. You can't drop in anywhere and see odd sights in Montmartre nowadays...
...money out 'of Prohibition at small personal risk and outlay? One way might be to impersonate a U.S. revenue agent and frighten hush money out of unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld name for this whole act is "shake-down...
...payments by foreign debtors and tolls from the Panama Canal. In his estimates of the country's income for fiscal 1929 and 1930, Secretary Mellon figured that Customs would increase 14 millions over 1928, to an annual total of 582 millions. Internal Revenue is figured for a drop of 52 millions in 1929 and eight more millions in 1930. The income tax provides the bulk of Internal Revenue. Income tax figures...
...Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will be on her feet, ready to hunt...
Singers and actors usually tell silly stories about themselves. They have certain legends that must be preserved for their public and truth so much more fascinating than fiction in most of their cases is let to drop unnoticed by the wayside. So it is that most autobiographies of prima donnas make sorry reading, that the material they give their biographers simmers down usually to flimsy substance. But last week there was published a biography that proved the exception. Mary Lawton* wrote it, called it Schumann-Heink, the Last of the Titans...