Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests...
...cell-like garage dug up the bodies of Mrs. Eicher and her children. The two girls, 9 and 14, had been strangled; the head of the boy, 12, was beaten in with a hammer. The police arrested Powers, pounded a confession out of him. Convicts still digging in the foul trench found the body of Dorothy Pressler Lemke, a grass widow who had withdrawn $1,533 from a bank and left Northboro, Mass, with Powers a month earlier...
...bases. Sheldon hit safely, after which Martynik took a brace and struck out Mays and Taylor. Passes to McCaffrey and McGrath filled the bases, but Cragan pulled his team out of a bad hole by hurling himself high against the screen behind the batter's box to capture a foul knocked by Ticknor, thus ending the inning...
...university, journalism, a law office. He marries Varvara, mainly for intellectual reasons, and cares very little when her love is chilled into seeking warmth elsewhere. Clim is really a parlor liberal, but even parlor liberals were looked at askance in Tsarist Russia, and he several times runs foul of the police, once goes to jail. Not from any excessive love for his fellow-man but because he has a head on his shoulders Clim begins to side with the revolutionaries. No longer just a bystander, he begins to feel the pull of the unseen magnet sweeping over Russia...
...which will be the last rugby match between these countries for some time. France has just been expelled from the British Rugby Federation after a squabble over play and tactics. This year three players have been killed in France; numerous have been the charges and counter-charges of brutality, foul play...