Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...110th time this year, police haled David Douglas Davenport into court, charged him, as usual, with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...
...Jesus saw a lot of good in this world, and He didn't like the way it was being pushed around; somebody had to take the rap, and He took...
...before. The trainer, who has a disillusioned parent's knowledge of the horse's habits and possibilities, gives the jockey a quick fillin, and tells him how to ride the race. Once on the track, the jockey has, like the soldier, the privilege of disregarding instructions and taking the rap...
...sophomores saw God as "a somewhat arbitrary yet sentimental old man who has a tendency to rap people's knuckles when they don't show him proper respect...
...chief moral problem: an industrialist (Edward G. Robinson) faces ruin if he is scrupulous enough to reject some defective war material. Moved by greed and devotion to his family, he passes the defective material along. He also tricks his partner (Frank Conroy) into taking the rap. Thousands of miles away, young men in U.S. uniforms die because of his crookedness. His younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness...