Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detective from Chicago's confidence game detail who posed as an impatient "investor," got a thorough picture of the whole headquarters operations. When police and postal inspectors finally pounced last April, they impounded $60,000 in cash, $40,000 which was being transmitted to Chicago by express from suckers who had been warned against using the mails to send in their money...
...barber in Texas. The Drake Estate was a matter of social interest in their communities. It was talked of at picnics, church socials, bridge parties. People were convinced it was the way to wealth. . . . They got these people to pool their money and ship it by railway express to Chicago...
...Kommissar." Since that time, Dr. Lewald has been unable to make a statement to the press without first getting permission from the representative of the Nazi government, Von Tschammer-Osten. Very plainly, the German Olympic Committee has abdicated its function for the sake of allowing the Nazi party to express its wishes more directly...
...purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue Express back to Paris he meets Joan Bennett, falls in love with her, does not know that she has been employed by the sharpers of the sporting club to bring him back to the tables to leave his winnings, and a little more. Once more the reserved chair at the baccarat...
...this struck Sir Cyril as decidedly not cricket. Said he last week: "I have had the advantage of seeing the main witness for the defendants. Mr. Hutchinson, in the box for some days. I think it is to be regretted very much that it is necessary to express an opinion about a man in his position. He is obviously a man of the greatest business ability and acumen. . . . For him there is obviously only one thing that matters-the Chrysler Corp. Where other interests are concerned, he can be ruthless and unscrupulous. This case shows without question that...