Word: kees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys...
...Budget was supposed to balance. Primary cause of these deficits is the failure of actual revenue to come up to the expectations of last January. This meant that instead of the public debt reaching a peak of $35,026,000,000 on July 1 and then receding, it would kee on going up and reach $35,750,000,000 by a year from July. It meant that a Budge balance was still around the corner...
...blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested the detention of two Chinese photographers, was rushed to a police station as a suspect and questioned for hours...
...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...
...especially welcome.*Long-coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...