Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tops; the May sun glinted on the flanks of horses, on fixed bayonets, trench helmets, machine guns. Watching the show, New York Citizens quite forgot the bad odor in which the paraders had been since Referee Samuel Seabury began his police and judiciary investigation last winter (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). But it was not only the parade which caused New Yorkers to undergo a change of heart about their police. Two days prior had taken place a front page police triumph which Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney had called "the most sensational in my 35 years of experience...
...murder of the red-headed dancer had taken the city's attention from the murder of another red-headed girl-Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, vice racketeer, whose death on the eve of giving testimony against a venal officer is yet to be solved (TIME, March 9, et seq.)-Commissioner Mulrooney sneered at Crowley: "Sure he fought when he was cornered. But so does a cornered rat. . . . He never really shot it out with anyone...
...schedule. Reno did its biggest business in the 67 years of the State's lax divorce law. Ever since the Legislature last March reduced the residence period from three months to six weeks, the city has been filling up with married women "to take the cure" (TIME, March 30, et ante...
...were to fly 10,000 mi. annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in his 46th year; might be killed in the 668th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every five years, prepare for death in the 35th. These chances are based on the civil air accident record for July-December 1930 published last week by the Department of Commerce...
...return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 19 et ante}, a wealthy and prominent victim. (Mrs. Kelley is a daughter of the late William Cullen McBride, rich...