Word: getaways
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...night of Aug. 5, 1930, one Kin Hanna, owner of an inn near Jay, N. Y. had a painful experience. He and his father-in-law Matt Cobb were beaten, gagged and bound by four men who then took $750 from the till and made their getaway...
...getaway, the robbers ran their cars off the road and one hit a culvert...
...Club. He is "Dos" to a wide acquaintance, but he has few intimate friends. At parties he is famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover up his remark with polite qualifications. Conversationally compact of nods and becks and wreathed smiles, he is a very different sort of fellow...
...Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before they made good their getaway to Hongkong...
...good lads shoved me off and the Bluebird made a good getaway in first speed. . . . Ahead of me stretched a seemingly illimitable field of glaring white with an eight-inch black strip down the centre to guide me. . . . Faster & faster I went. It was the first time a world's high-speed record had been attempted on salt. . . . I passed my first marker, a huge 'No. 6' three feet high, painted on a large square board. This indicated to me that I had six miles to go before I reached the beginning of the measured mile...