Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick grey hair rumpled, his face twisted into a wry smile, Bear Brush announced: "I'm going to be shot when I get back to New York." Senator Brookhart: Have they got rackets like Al Capone up there? Mr. Brush: Al Capone is a piker compared to that racket...
...rich realtor who lived "like a hermit in one of my vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...
...conservative source of "Today's Truth--Tomorrow's Trend," reports that cribbing has not reached Harvard 'yet'. Such a discrediting imputation should serve to stir the University to a ferment of activity and reform. Even the Republicans would be stimulated to reform should they learn that the Prohibition racket had not yet come to Washington...
...Dale Owen), not a bit like Anne Morrow. It looks for a time as though the valiant aeronaut were guilty of treachery to the girl back home, who had sacrificed some property to finance the exploit. But in the end-you've guessed it-he renounces "the hero racket" over the radio, returns quite chastened to his native Maine, his twangy rustic cronies and his girl...
...aspect the people themselves were to blame; but in another every rule of fair play, every principle of forthrightness and honesty acquit those ignorant of finance and transfer the guilt to the international bankers who coined the ignorance and confidence of their customers. ... If ever there was a racket imposed upon the American people, that racket is the racket that has been played upon American investors by the international bankers with the securities they retailed...