Word: past
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monthly bribes of $800 were recorded as paid to one police official, while another received $10,000 in one month. Said Mr. Monaghan, "I know their names . . . highest police officials have been tainted." He estimated that the liquor traffickers had deposited $10,000,000 in local banks during the past year. Meagre-salaried police officers, he claimed, had prodigious bank accounts...
...taken for granted that the Lombardo killing was retaliation for the death, two months ago of Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster (TIME, July 9). But, as in some 215 other Chicago murders during the past two years, no conviction was probable. Chicago police philosophy is to let the thugs shoot each other up and devil take the hindmost innocent bystander...
...Black! The old emblem was symbolical of Afghanistan's oppression by foreign peoples. In the new flag the black stripe represents our past...
...young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair at the opera, she called it a consummation. But when someone came down the passage past her door that night, she thought something more would be in order; so she grabbed a man who turned out to be, not her lieutenant, but the butcher's boy, creeping to a kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward...
...Small exhibitors have in the past been obliged to accept "block" booking, a collection of tedious pictures with some good ones. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the system, found it pernicious, forbade it, denounced the burly distributors. But block booking continues...