Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gazette's fortunes have dwindled, as has its circulation-now said to be about 50,000. The Police Gazette today has nothing even faintly suggestive of such headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp...
...quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve the Modern Youth?" Jokes were also included. Sample: Big Congo Chief-"Waiter, where's that roast white meat I ordered an hour ergo?" Congo Waiter-"The missionary ship is an hour late, sir!" Nearly 50,000 copies of the first issue were quickly grabbed up. But not all Negroes heaped praise upon the magazine simply because it is by and for Negroes. Said Colyumist-Critic Theophilus Wells of the Amsterdam...
...Texas roast its blacks alive, Let racketeers extend and thrive, Let gangsters flourish and survive By methods grim and gory! But Knee-high shorts shall still preserve The noble mind, the fearless nerve And still shall culture's highest curve Remain Columbia's glory...
...whole roast pigeon...
Then, without warning, Capone walked into Chicago police headquarters. One hand was bandaged; he said he had burned it taking a roast of beef from an oven. Blandly he asked if he was "wanted" Chief Stege told him emphatically he was NOT wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview...