Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barber") Factor, won a $15,000 settlement in his $500,000 libel suit against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...
...book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take the whole rap for the Yaltese cross...
...Boston, Mayor James Curley, who has done time on a mail fraud rap, took a backward look at his life & hard times. "I might have taken the primrose path," he admitted righteously, "but I chose the thorny path-trying to do something for the needy, the unfortunate. Any man that takes the hard, thorny road will always be accused of being a boss and a buccaneer...
...character called "The Big Fellow" who never appears on the screen, but who seems to be modeled on the late Al Capone. Heading the hounds is Glenn Ford as a Government T-man who is out to nail The Big Fellow on a $3,000,000 tax-evasion rap...
...Boston, a 20-year-old youth, just released after serving a six-month rap for breaking into a restaurant last year, tried it three more times in the same place, was nabbed by police on the fourth attempt...