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Word: goed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...jury found Gravitt guilty of involuntary manslaughter, recommended a year to 18 months in jail (he will be eligible for parole in four months). The judge let Gravitt go free for a week before sentencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Many a woman has found herself trapped astride of the curb, loaded down with bundles and flapping desperately like an injured canary in a windtunnel. No matter how hard she waves her handbag or the weekend groceries, the taxicabs go whooshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Phweet, Phweet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Philip Kastel, which is my associate, to go down there and work the thing out. He went down and he incorporated . . . [Huey Long] wanted to get himself about 25 to 30 thousand dollars per year to donate toward some fund . . . There was supposed to be a tax to the state and that tax was going to some relief of some kind . . . That was his proposal, but it never happened because he died." How did Costello happen to be singled out for so profitable a deal? "Maybe I was the lucky one," he dryly told the jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Schedule." With his business embarrassments thus detached and distant from his home town, Frank Costello lived as openly as his more respectable neighbors along apartment-lined Central Park. He followed an almost unvarying routine ("I go places so regular they call me Mr. Schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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