Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...
...declines to talk for publication beyond the statement, 'That was no way to treat a lady,' and 'Thank heaven, the jug wasn't broken...
Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...
...cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
Near Seattle, Wash., one Mrs. M. E. Stein was cooking fish. Hearing a commotion outside, she left her kitchen, left the fish frying over the fire and a great jug of spicy soup standing on the floor. When she returned to the kitchen, she first went to "turn" the fish; then she looked at her soup tureen. She stared at her soup tureen; over the edge of it was hanging a grey, silky brush. When Mrs. Stein pulled this brush, she found that it was attached to an animal. From her soup she extracted the pet weasel...