Word: mur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only result was that the Mayor said he "would abide by the State Department's decision" if it should rule on "Mr. K." To Germans it was occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid public showing of the swastika. To Germans, however, it was thrilling to read of the prompt, virile reaction of hyphenated German...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...potatoes" such old intimates as William Kenny, Daniel Mooiiey, George Van Namee, has done so for years. A friendly phrase, he uses it as an Englishman does "old bean." Possible derivation: In Manhattan's lower East Side resides many a Murphy; white potatoes are sometimes referred to as "mur-phys." Al Smith first called Murphys and then other Irish friends "potatoes." ' Pronounced...
...Bligh, commander of the Bounty, was a man of ungovernable temper and crazy severity. He had his men flogged at the slightest excuse, short-changed them on their miserable rations, got himself mur- derously hated. Trouble was brewing all the long voyage out, but nothing broke till the Bounty had left Tahiti. Then one night two-thirds of the crew mutinied, put Bligh and his supporters in a dangerously crowded open boat and let them take a chance on reaching land. Narrator Byam was one of several non-mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned...
...Marius, is troubled by the added complication of having the blustering proprietor of a cafe for a father. The picture will be easily intelligible to those who have no knowledge of French. Tickets should be obtained shortly since even with extended showing "Le Million" and "Le Trou dans Le Mur" attracted more spectators than should be seated with the existing capacity...