Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were. Inside lucky girls invited to the annual Poverty Ball received shiny frying pans as favors from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...
...thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed free of winter dust, and as they form a marching line, how spry are the limbs and voices of the wearers...
...James Rennie), knocks down and fatally injures a man who accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis. This gives her enemies a chance to get back at her by editing their testimony at Niles's trial, but she buys them off by doubling her offers and Niles goes free with a suspended sentence for manslaughter. In the autumn he goes back to propose marriage, but he has been forbidden to live in the town and Miss Quis feels too deeply rooted to leave...
...first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given four years in jail. The Ward Line was fined $10,000, its Executive Vice President Henry Edward Cabaud $5,000 (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936). Mr. Cabaud and the Line paid their fines, but Warms and Abbott appealed, meanwhile stayed free on bail. Last week, from his cottage in Morristown, N. J., gaunt, sad-eyed William Warms was called to a neighbor's telephone. Few minutes later he ran back shouting...
...gave his address as "St. James Court, Buckingham Gate, S. W. I." Mr. Harrison was already under Federal indictment for flagrantly misrepresenting the assets of a certain Big Wedge Gold Mining Co., of California. This time his promotion of "The London Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood of his address was not inappropriate, because the chief backer of the London Curb was none other than Martin Coles Harman, famed onetime "King" of the island of Lundy...