Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will] beat my heart and beat my brain . . . and lug me to . . . the lowest dives . . ." He wrote Replenishing Jessica, about a millionaire's promiscuous daughter. It became a bestseller in 1925; Bodenheim and his publisher were charged with selling obscene and indecent literature, but triumphantly beat the rap...
Died. George Remus, 78, "King of the Bootleggers," who piled up millions during Prohibition, spent it all beating a murder rap (the victim: his wife, who was trifling with an FBI man); after long illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself...
...wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback, but unmasks a clown (James Stewart) as a great surgeon who has been hiding behind his make-up for years (and throughout the film) to beat a euthanasia rap...
...even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...
...announced in angry exasperation. Dorothy C. Frisbee, a 14-year veteran of the bureau, had admitted to embezzling $5,000 from the employees' credit union. Dunlap signed her suspension order on the spot. In San Francisco, Smyth insisted that he and his men were taking a "bum rap," yet Smyth seemed to have an extraordinarily relaxed attitude toward his job. According to the Kefauver Committee, Smyth was two years late in collecting some of his own income tax. "Hell, I hadn't done anything crooked," he explained. "I didn't pay the tax because I didn...