Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such a management assumes that the only durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
...never mean to hit below the belt, but I felt that roll-call on prostitution was a bit below. ... So, in all conscience . . . I withdrew...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
...charge account. Graciously, she consents, moves on to another store to repeat the performance. But at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, before the array of checks can reach the bank, Miss T- withdraws her deposit, hastens home to you with her purchases and a tidy roll of bills. If you were generous, you might allow her a 25% commission on her earnings before speeding her to another city. This, as a matter of fact, is the exact "racket" with which the National Surety Co. last week charged an organized swindling ring, employing 40 girls, operating in many...