Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Capone, with his ever present bodyguard, Frank ("Slippery") Cline, had been teasing Atlantic City police officials with his presence in that resort. He prepared to return to Chicago, motored to Philadelphia, missed the Broadway Limited, made a reservation on the Manhattan Limited. With two hours to kill, he went to a cinema. Detectives picked him up as he came out, took from him a .38 calibre revolver, courteously escorted him to police headquarters. Bail was set at $35,000. At midnight he was questioned by Director of Public Safety Lemuel B.Schofield and made these statements...
...Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...
Fish. A drizzly rain fell over New York harbor at dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired...
...killed, or kill some-body," suggested a colleague. "Make some news...
...Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated...