Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house was: "I'm willing to take the rap." Still too drunk to give a coherent account of what had happened, he was held for investigation...
After the war, Miss George marries Mr. Tone but does not realize in what manner he makes his money until told by Mr. Tracy, who thinks she is responsible for his friend's underworld life. Thereupon Miss George has her husband arrested and makes him take the rap for his own good, living under Mr. Tracy's protection in the meantime. Mr. Tone wants to get back to his wife, however, and escapes from prison. When he wants Miss George to dodge cops with him, Mr. Tracy steps in, tells his friend he, too, loves Miss George, and refuses...
...perpetual conflict of forces, matter moves toward the final synthesis of a classless society." Offering no concrete alternative to Communism, "Since this is not [the Church's] field," Pius XI nevertheless begged for Catholic "equilibrium of truth and justice" in a passage which liberal Catholics hoped was a rap at Fascism. Since the Church now appears to get along well with Fascism of the Italian variety, the rap seemed to apply to Naziism. Three days later this was amply confirmed when the Pope dispatched to Germany a circular letter so full of dynamite that copies...
...sometimes said that opportunity knocks but once. For Freshmen the opportunity to dine in the Houses has been rapping since last September, and it still continues unavailingly to rap its knuckles raw as far as most first year men are concerned. A certain measure of sympathy is due the men who finds himself in a House other than his choice, but the Freshman who, with one blind stab, successfully chooses his upperclass residence and then finds it not at all to his liking deserves little commiseration. An occasional meal in each of the seven Houses is one of the best...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...