Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 11, Mr. Palmieri expressed the attitude of this veteran of the recent World War who is also opposed to the selfish, money-grab- bing attempts of present veterans organizations in behalf of those of us who were not disabled...
...Oswald Mosley, M. P. and his rich wife, also an M. P., are bright, ambitious young people, not over scrupulous. They are frankly out to grab the Prime Ministry for Sir Oswald when he is ten years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby-kissers. And all the time they are busy spending where it will do the most political good the income from millions left to Lady Mosley by her grandfather, the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Last week Sir Oswald saw and fairly snapped up a chance to seize leadership...
...ideas, sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, then out on the road to sell hats. But the son revolted, became a low-comedy vaudevillian, remained one for eleven years. In 1914 he was given a part in the Ziegfeld Follies. Other Wynn appearances were in The Perfect Fool, Grab Bag, Manhattan Mary...
...hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme C : a reward was offered to any citizen of Ihlamour who would allow himself to be lowered 50 feet down the well to grab Yusuf's duck with his bare hands. The first volunteer jammed ignominiously when the well bore unexpectedly narrowed 30 feet below the surface. The rope broke, he was rescued only with difficulty...
...democracy, therefore, Haiti came to be ruled by dictators. Only two of twenty-four Presidents retired peacefully after completing their terms. A President remained in power as long as his armed forces were stronger than those of the combined opposition. Anxious to attain power, general after general made a grab at the Presidency, and revolution followed revolution. Bribery and corruption were part and parcel of the whole system. From collectors of taxes to school teachers, all tried to get a little more for themselves by playing politics...