Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...
...money produces an income of only $500,000 a year. The estates are entailed, they cannot be sold. The palaces and jewels produce no income. When income taxes on the cash fund and land taxes on the million acres are paid, a half-million dollars is all that is left. Most important of all this half-million belongs to the ex-Kaiser only as head of the House of Hohenzollern. There are 49 members dependent on the fund, none of whom is willing to give up his share. That leaves some $10,000 per annum for each of them, with...
Tall, blond and 15, John Davison Rockefeller left his small-town family in Parma, Ohio, and went north to Cleveland. There he paid $1 a week for board. He shot no pool, drank no beer, sang no barbershop ballads, ogled no wenches. He satisfied his social needs in the Erie Street Baptist Church. There he would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school...
...first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that he met his latest subject. Or perhaps he golfed with Rockefeller cronies, kept record of their reminiscences. Those parts...
...Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered to be Mr. Cartwright, industriously clicking a large key in a rusty lock...