Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert L. Reeves, a Republican, who beat Judge Southern to the 1936 election prosecutions, beat him again by giving a Federal grand jury evidence of income tax evasion by Kansas City mobsters. Judge Reeves asserted that one "big man" (Charles Carrolla), had charged $30,500 for protecting a "residential resort." Said Judge Reeves: "There is an enormous income from gambling in Kansas City and so far as I know, the Government realizes no income from that gambling...
...shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...
...possible to divide the objectors to any rearmament program into three classes; the first contains those who would rather see themselves, their families, and their countries martyred for their convictions; the second includes those who believe that armament is only necessary at the last moment, as a last resort, and hence is dangerous in times of peace; the third is a class which declares that the next war will be so horrible that there is no use preparing for it--civilization will be destroyed anyway...
...this will not happen here. Harvard is not a currently fashionable resort, but a growing community. Its inhabitants are not sightseers; they have come to stay. If the University has difficulty in filling the Francis Lee Higginson chair, it will not be for want of applicants. With his deep, booming voice, his profound erudition and inspired criticism, Professor Lowes has added many citizens to this community...
Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...