Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...
...will fight this thing to the end," asserted the student, and promptly got in touch with Apted, giving him the letter and reluctantly parting with the photograph. The colonel, who has been kept busy of late tracking down the leader of the blackmail racker centering around the Yard, quickly seized what...
...public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss surplus increased only $5,419,264 (72% less than the 1936 increase); this, offset by a sharp $8,514,335 dip in reserves, indicated that in 1937 Ford Motor Co. (not considering...
...then learned that the man had been innocent, his conscience rode him harder than ever. When he committed adultery with the wife of an informer, it nearly drove him crazy. When a priest refused him absolution, he dropped the revolution, gave himself up, was shot in cold blood. Kilfoyle got away, reflecting sardonically: "The Englishman loves his wife and his dog; the Irishman, his soul...
When the English publishers of To beg I am ashamed sent advance copies to columnists of the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, they got an unpleasant surprise: before the book was released both papers appeared with quaint English headlines, such as "A Vile Book," "A Disgraceful Book," with vague stories about its sensationalism, forced its withdrawal...