Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures and 248 demonstrations, Dr. Pool might well have considered himself unlucky to have missed the following...
...Eugene Hillhouse Pool, teacherish president of the Academy, opened the lecture course, then ducked out on 750 out-of-towners who signed up ($3 each) for the course. Manhattan manners were forgiven, however, when Dr. Pool, long-time professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University, reappeared at San Francisco to be elected 1936 president of the American College of Surgeons...
...since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen-heimer's chauffeur, sprawled in a pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman...
...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...
...years ago a stock had spurted $11 per share in six days, Wall Street would have glibly explained: "Pool." When Chrysler Corp. jumped from $72 per share to $83 on the New York Stock Exchange last week that stock explanation would no longer do. Pools are now banned by law. Nevertheless, it took less than half an eye to see that Chrysler's spectacular performance was not due solely to bright motor prospects. Rumors took wing that SEC's eagle-eyed trading inspectors had seen all they needed...