Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Club Cabazon mysteriously burned to its foundations last December, it became clear to the townfolk that the only citizen who was making any profit out of Cabazon was Mayor Tallent. An opposition group, the Civic Improvement Association, began to gather recruits. The anti-Tallent cause was helped when Riverside County deputy sheriffs raided Tallent's home, claimed they found and photographed him nude in bed with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think...
...Grassi and asked him to return the money. When Grassi could fork up only $50,000 of it, Allen worried for three weeks, finally confessed to American Express officials, and then to the police. Had Allen given Grassi the money to speculate on promise of a share of the profit? The hapless Allen would only say, "I had no idea he was a gambler . . . He lived at the Georges V Hotel. How could I have any suspicion that he wasn't honest...
Carey's argumentation throughout is utterly sound; and on only a couple of extremely minute points would I care to disagree with him. There is no one who could not derive much profit from a careful perusal of this pocket-sized but capacious volume. (There is, in the above remarks, a glaring error in punctuation. Did you notice...
...risen so high (from a '58 low of $2.87½ to $12.50 last week) that a group of banks that last year forgave $38.2 million in corporate debt in return for convertible preferred with a par value of $16.5 million have begun to sell the shares at a profit...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...