Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison to serve a year and a day for perjury instead of three years for income-tax evasion. The three-year sentence given him a year ago was suspended as a reward for his testimony help in sending Laboracketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne to the pen for extortion...
...breeches. Father O'Hare became a wealthy Chicago operator of race tracks (for nags and dogs), notorious "front man" for Al Capone and other gangsters, and was shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare's $250,000 estate, the bulk of which was left in trust to his children, George Remus, once-famed bootleg king and wife-killer, had filed a claim for $196,000 for liquor stolen from his St. Louis warehouses. The rejection of the Remus...
...topic is more susceptible to the satirical pen than that of politicians and petty graft. Actual proof of this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting...
...Cinemactor Gene Lockhart, celebrating a Navy Chaplain's now-famed words during the attack on Pearl Harbor, wrote a "fighting hymn," Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press tapped out America Needs You. Citizens Song had words by Louis Conyers (pen name of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of John Pierpont Morgan...
...time whether he really did have any blood, Vag was interrupted by another lady who called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there to drink some orange juice...