Word: matted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most spirited income tax investigations on record. Result was indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went to the mat with its first big-time Longster when Abraham Lazard Shushan was brought to trial in New Orleans on a charge of evading Federal taxes on $448,000 of a 1929-33 income...
...modern art critics have ever heard of Joseph Boggs Beale, and the Professor, busy making colored lantern slides, illustrating Bible tracts, mat calendars, children's books, probably never dreamed that they would. But among his best friends were men of whom critics have learned a great deal-Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, Albert Rosenthal. Beale was a member of the old Philadelphia Artists' League and shared Artist Eakins' passion for rowing. At the Professor's death in 1926 he was the oldest living member of the Undine Barge Club. A hard worker, particularly in his later...
...length of time has seen cases where an emotional storm has brought on an acute attack of glaucoma with complete loss of vision. I realize that an editor of a public journal, such as TIME, is in a rather difficult situation, but I do think that such mat ters should be submitted to some medical authority for advice before being written up as this was in TIME...
...demand of Ethiopia, the League Council last week called Italy to the mat. Ethiopia was represented by Professor Gaston Jeze of the Paris Sorbonne. To smash him Dictator Benito Mussolini sent to Geneva the hard-bitten Italian naval officer who, during the War, smashed Imperial Austria's network of spies after they had succeeded in blowing up two Italian battleships...
...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...