Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in a red brick house on a Washington hilltop a man strove to out-midge the midge in public unimportance. He wanted to hush all mention of his name. The only shadow he wanted to cast was his own wavering outline against the library wall opposite the open fire...
...last the chap with the scar descended from his Labrador crag, sold the concession to the British government?and all that remained was for the female administration to hush up the scandal...
...players crouch. There is a hush. The ball is snapped. It strikes waiting hands and bobs away. An alert Chocolate figure seizes it. There he goes?toward two white posts 94 yards away. On and on and on?40 yards, 60 yards, 80? touchdown! The Chocolate wins...
...inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital of the Clark Street scene, with the flat accusation that real policemen had done the "job" as a disciplinary measure to gangsters who had failed to pay up promised "hush money...
...might a glib varlet, lacking the nerve lo be an out-&-out racketeer, make money out 'of Prohibition at small personal risk and outlay? One way might be to impersonate a U.S. revenue agent and frighten hush money out of unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld...