Word: getaways
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...Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing got a sorry jolt when prim-looking, thin-lipped, bespectacled Mrs. Smith was caught in a Manhattan rooming house. Mrs. Dunkel made more headlines by expressing a fear that her friend had already killed Harry Jung, who could not be found...
...maker of card-index systems, hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next morning, he protested that up to 1932 he paid his taxes in New York. Furthermore, he could pay no Massachusetts taxes even if he owed them. Since 1925, when he merged Rand Co. with...
...last that he has been made a tool in an extremely nefarious scheme by which Mr. Norris is trying to sell German Communist secrets to the French secret service, our hero sees through the old codger at last. For old times' sake he helps Mr. Norris make his getaway, wishes himself a good riddance...
Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...
...disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until she and Mrs. Stoll were on their way back to Louisville in company of a preacher-kinsman. By that time, Kidnapper Robinson with the $50,000 had made his getaway, was being pursued all over the southeast...