Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unprecedented procedure set off a series of scandals which startled even the most resigned of Philadelphians. The head of the amusement-tax division hanged himself. A water-department official slashed his wrists with a razor blade (he had been taking bribes for jamming the mechanism of city meters and...
The jailing of Winter was touched off by his flat refusal to tell whether or not his father-in-law had attended the party's 1945 national convention. It was the climax of eight days of hairsplitting evasion during which Winter's memory wavered, as his fancy suited...
Lookouts were posted along both sides of the straightaway, flashlights ready to blink at the first sign of police. The first few cars took off with a roar, sped down the highway at 60, 70, 100 miles an hour. They ripped along two abreast, made oncoming motorists scurry to the...
Los Angeles, which has managed to survive a cemetery with a floodlighted duck pond, Mickey Cohen and the tribal rites of Hollywood, seemed to be taking the hot rods in stride. The smartest thing to do was keep off the streets after dark.
Dearer Ovaltine. The British move touched off convulsive reflex actions around the fiscal world. (To cushion the shock, British banks and exchanges were closed for one day; other countries declared similar holidays.) All the dominions devalued their currencies in proportion; Canada, a dollar country, devalued its dollar 10%. In the...