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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case drew to a close, Sir William Jowitt, ace lawyer for Lord Rothermere, summed up by observing that not only was the Princess' story that she had been promised $20,000 yearly for life untrue, "but if it were true it could only be true on the basis that this lady was flirting with blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Flirting with Blackmail | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Princess' claim that he promised to pay her $20,000 a year for the rest of her life, Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, boomed "Preposterous!" He admitted paying her $250,000 in six years to handle his relations with Adolf Hitler and other European bigwigs, naively explaining: "I expected her to live like a queen." But when asked if she was his ambassador, prognathous Rothermere replied with heavy humor: "I am not a sovereign state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Flirting with Blackmail | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...hopeful young Lifer Whitsitt has been an exemplary prisoner. Three years ago his excellent behavior got him a break. He was allowed to sell a story he had written of life in prison. Then he began to talk prison officials into letting him ghostwrite crime articles for them. Last month he earned $145 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...newsgatherer, Whitsitt is trusted to go pretty much where he pleases in the prison, pesters the life out of turnkeys and wardens alike for items. But what buzzes along the prison grapevine, wise Lifer Whitsitt lets severely alone. One night last fortnight the grapevine crackled with details of an attempted jailbreak, in which six escaping prisoners killed a guard. Of this black-type story, the Radio Gazette has broadcast not a peep. Says young Lifer Whitsitt: "I'm no Walter Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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