Word: lam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...
...After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver lam...
...girl was acquitted. Arrested girls were taken to the ring's lawyer, a disbarred attorney named Karp, coached in an alibi. Eight out of ten appeared in court, were freed on their stories. Those who seemed sure to be convicted were told to "take it on the lam" (disappear temporarily) and their bail was forfeited. "We have identified," cried Prosecutor Dewey, "some 170-odd arrests for prostitution in 1935 in which the girls worked for this combination. Not one of these girls ever went to jail...
...family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger news than...