Word: racketeered
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...into her love life; and her Twentieth Century Boswell added zest to the day's occupation by buzzing in and out with little extra facts and side remarks. This morning the news will go out from here to the West Coast that Harvard is mixed up in the movie racket again...
After a week of racket swinging, the only man out of approximately 100 entrants in the University tennis tournament to advance as far as the round of sixteen is Will Nicholl, dark-horse Junior netman who did not even play tennis last year...
...same emergency lighting physicians delivered one baby naturally, another by Caesarean section. Storage plants, home electrical appliances, elevators, radio sets all went dead. Set off by the breakage in current, burglar alarms all over the city began to ring. The sirens of police patrol cars added to the weird racket...
...years later Joe reached the final in the light-heavyweight division of the National Amateur boxing championships at Boston. By that time Joe had come to the attention of dignified, college-bred John Roxborough (recently indicted and charged with connections with the numbers racket). Roxborough, son of a reputable Negro lawyer and angel of Detroit's black belt, had helped put a dozen colored boys & girls through the University of Michigan...
...product of his years as a reporter. This style, studied closely, resolves itself into a trick of calling names more luridly than anyone else. He once said that the late Huey Long had "halitosis of the intellect"; that General Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores"; that when Racket-Buster Thomas E. Dewey announced his Presidential candidacy he "tossed his diapers into the ring...