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Word: leggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small children, she finds that they are starving to death, suspects a doctor's plot to murder them. Implicated in the scheme is the household chauffeur (Clark Gable) who cuffs the nurse on the jaw when she disobeys his orders. When the hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

What happens to the small boy caught and convicted in a Federal Court for delivering an adult 'legger's bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Accidents | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...London, Conn., John Kaneen, 65. apprehended 'legger, connected a gas-jet to an ash can. crawled in, suffocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Baked | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...more celebrated liquor-buyer case was that of Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan stockbroker, who bought of a Philadelphia 'legger (TIME, Oct. 14). But the Supreme Court held that his plea of nolo contendere ("I do not choose to argue") was a virtual admission of guilt, and declined to review his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refinements | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...sent Newsman Kenneth Campbell. Investigator Campbell found speakeasies (known locally as "blind pigs") doing business almost at the factory gates. Fourteen were spotted in one block. Coffee houses and boarding houses sell liquor steadily to Ford workmen, despite the efforts of the Ford secret police to break up 'legger trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dirty Work at Dearborn | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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