Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeated his inquiries about the welfare of the U. S. crew, which was beginning to look like the unluckiest pawn in the game...
...forgotten this, there is "What a Life" to bring back those memories, fond or otherwise. Jackie Cooper is the butt of all situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...
...District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey branded Lepke as "probably the most dangerous criminal in the U. S." and posted a $25,000 reward for his capture dead or alive. Lepke was supposed to have preyed on the fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. After that Lepke became a pawn in a political game between Republican District Attorney Dewey, who is grooming himself for a Presidential nomination by racket-busting, and Democratic U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who wanted the glory of busting Lepke himself...
...will be a landlocked country, dispossessed of a sea outlet. From the sloping hills of Southern Anatolia to the sharp, barren rocks of Aden there were bound to be universal and indignant protests that the Arabs had again been betrayed, that an Arab State had again suffered as the pawn of British-French power politics. The soft, sweet words that Aggrandizer Hitler undoubtedly whispered to Khalid al Hud at Berchtesgaden, the inflammable anti-British and anti-French propaganda that goes over the ether nightly from Italian and German radio stations, will probably fall on more receptive Arab ears hereafter...
...Harvard chess team, undefeated for over four years, unofficially won the championship of the Ivy League Saturday by defeating the Columbia pawn pushers...