Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the lake. Gillette said she had died accidentally when the boat overturned, and he had fled because the circumstances looked suspicious. But Grace Brown's wistful letters to Gillette, begging him to marry her, convinced the jury of deliberate murder. He had clubbed the girl with a tennis racket. He was electrocuted...
...sold about 200,000 copies. He wrote other pamphlets. He started a weekly newspaper Epic News, carrying advertisements, priced 5�. Its circulation reached about 175,000. (Biggest vote he ever polled as a Socialist was about 60,000.) Rivals accused him of running not a campaign but a publishing racket. He replied that he had two bank accounts with $108.74 in one and $20.68 in the other, that his living and his cottage in Pasadena?with two fig trees in its door-yard?were only made secure by his more practical wife, Mary Craig Sinclair...
...both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry's demeanor is more like that of Jean Borotra than of any other player of the last decade. He uses nervous, snapping strokes, starts his racket near the ball, curtails his follow-through. His most outstanding shot is a forehand drive executed on a rising ball as he runs toward the net. He volleys with more power than finesse, serves hard but without either the finality or the waste of energy that characterizes U. S. players...
...protect the Dionne quintuplets from "exploiters from American cities who come to Canada to pull off a racket," the Province of Ontario last week appointed four "big strapping fellows" as guardians. Exclaimed Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these...
...business was not strictly legal. His craving for women, liquor, gambling made money his obsession. Hard up, he shook down a pimp of his acquaintance once too often, found himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon he was ''the brain guy" for a small gang of robbers. But Bill was no thoughtless criminal and his conscience and his fears died hard. As he got deeper into...