Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...
...worst one-week stands in the U. S. But last fall 586 St. Louisans, from Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann down, joined a subscription group, the Playgoers, guaranteed basic audiences for touring companies. By last week ten good plays had been royally received in St. Louis, eight more were coming. Showmen checked up, agreed that St. Louis had become the road's best host...
...week, a top-notch British soccer professional is expected to play two bruising games a week for eight months of the year, is traded from one club to another (sometimes for as much as ?10,000), may be a hero to 90,000 cheering spectators but can hope for nothing more than his standardized weekly wage...
...Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost it to Joe Louis last...
Adviser William Jett Lauck, has been something less than successful. Unable for eight months to agree on recommendations, it finally issued a series of reports, most of which failed to make headlines though they did establish pretty thoroughly the basic troubles besetting hard coal. Among them...