Word: roust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send him away, surveyed a high wall which has been built around the Capone house; reflected upon the quickness and brutality of trigger-fingers from Chicago. Mayor J. N. Lummus Jr., of Miami Beach wondered what to do. His real estate firm had sold the house...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...