Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were such lurid desperadoes as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, the "Terrible Touhy" Gang, "Pretty Boy" Floyd. And on Sept. 26, 1933, Mr. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly produced a word which still rings from the front pages of the U. S. Press. Trapped in the bedroom of his Memphis hideout, the instigator of the Urschel kidnapping held his trembling hands high...
...Shipping Board sold her to International Mercantile Marine which contracted to send her on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. IMM lost $500,000 on Leviathan, the first year, promptly clapped her back in her Hoboken hideout. Last spring, after spending $150,000 on improvements, IMM took her out again. She lost $143,000 on her first trip, was only half full on her fifth...
Fred Wallace, veteran diver, who feels light-headed without his 140 pounds of gear, told about another victim he pulled up from Davy Jones' hideout...
...bloody unsuccessful October revolution he played no active part but allowed his Madrid penthouse apartment to be used as a hideout by four Socialists while he prudently absented himself for four days. When he returned to his apartment street fighting was still going on. Police raided the house and found Luis Quintanilla and four revolvers. In Spain if a man has three revolvers, shotguns or rifles in his home he may conceivably be a sportsman or a collector. If he has four he is plotting against the government...
Since Sambo IV (Harvard 1908) is suing Brother Sherman (Harvard 1912) for an accounting of their father's estate, it was questionable whether he would extend to Sherman the handsome offer inscribed in the 1908 classbook: "... I have a delightful wife, a delightful home and a delightful hideout, where I shall be glad to offer concealment to any of the Class of 1908 who desire to elude the police...