Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...client is supplied with a keg of nonalcoholic concentrate which Vine-Glo agents put down in his cellar. They dilute it, tend it for 60 days. By then it becomes wine of about 15% alcoholic content. Prohibition Director Woodcock explained again & again that he could prosecute only if an intent to violate the law was shown and intent was very hard to prove...
...publishing statements showing annual net profits of over a million dollars, when the company was actually losing nearly three times that much and dividends were being paid from a secret reserve fund of which the stockholders had no knowledge; 2) issuing a false prospectus of debenture stocks "with intent to induce persons to entrust or advance property to the company...
...screamingly funny, 2) rather silly, 3) crazy but dull. It concerns itself with the predicaments and escapes of a young man who seems to have a perpetual case of the jitters (Charles Ruggles). Engaged to marry a debutante with a dignified mother, he is pursued with kindly intent by an ardent blonde (Tamara Geva), later, with less kindly intent, by her gangster husband. To escape the gangster, the young man tries to get himself jailed, succeeds in going to the same jail as the gangster. Here he finds the warden guilty of crooked bookkeeping, is later discovered, by his fiancee...
Despite the historical intent of the book, there is in it of necessity a great deal of criticism, although, to be sure, most of it is not Professor Hughes'. Therein, I think, lies the fault of the book. It is too much a compendium of information to be valued for any other qualities. It might almost be called a "Guide to future works on Imagism," so thoroughgoing is its historical organization...
...first time in seven years, New York City's health authorities, intent on stamping out house flies, last week took a census of all the horses within their province. The total counted was 22,156, as compared with 50,053 in 1924. In the total, however, were included 1,729 saddle-horses, an increase of 25% in the past two years...