Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rows of seats, until the rake hurtled by into the blackness. Crazed with fear, men forgot the first rule of the rake-rider and jumped to their feet. They were decapitated by the jagged hunks of coal sticking out of the shaft roof. Halfway down the shaft the whole rig left the tracks and piled up with a crash heard at the mine mouth a mile away...
...Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, the narration of their story seems a tediously oblique fashion of presenting material which would make almost any purely personal romance seem drab by comparison...
Died. Ervin J. Smith, 50, president of International Secret Service Association Inc., famed private detective who investigated the Black Tom explosion, the Leo Frank case, the death of Starr Faithfull; by his own hand (shooting); in Manhattan. Once a group of skeptical New Yorkers hired him to rig out some of his men in frock coats, send them to the lectures of Explorer Frederick Cook to heckle him with troublesome questions...
Prime refinement claimed by Dr. Link is scientific phrasing of questions. He warned that careless or dishonest polliticians can easily rig a poll. Changing one or two words, he said, sometimes changes responses by 10% to 20%. Thus, 69% of a group who were asked "Are we headed for prosperity?" answered "Yes," but when the question was changed to "Are we headed for a reasonable prosperity?" the yeses increased...
...World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...