Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank was removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan...
...been poked in his back, shears snipped threateningly under his ears. "I was treated like a dog. The bed they gave me was infested. They called me every vile and filthy name they could think of." Kidnappee Factor however, for all his brutal treatment, was unwilling to hazard a guess for the authorities as to his captors' identity. He threw a bad scare into many a wealthy Chicago home by announcing: "The gangsters told me that they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state...
...asked by a correspondent whether the dollar was being pegged at $4 to the pound, replied "That guess would shoot very close to the mark...
...month demand for rooms has jumped 30% to 40%. Most of the pick up has been due to conventions, of which Chicago expects 1,000 before the Fair is over.* Bona fide Fairgoers have not turned up in large numbers as yet and hotels have been unable even to guess at what volume of business will develop through the summer. Rates in higher-priced hotels are generally down 25% to 35% from last year (and 1929). Low-priced hotels have not reduced...
...wholly tractable witness was "O. P." His memory of figures and dates was defective, he refused consistently to "guess." Time and again he answered, "I don't know. We will get that figure for you." or "You can get that from the records." Caustic comments about the quality of his memory did not move him. Yet at the end of four days' testimony the committeemen could get a good idea of how the Van Sweringens had acquired their railroad system, step by step from a "shoestring...