Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnny Torrio, tough, buttoneyed little dean of the Prohibition criminal era, was on trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent...
Last week the 458 women were brought to trial on an old tennis court. The judge sat under a shade tree and the ascetic defendants stood in the sun, dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even quarrels." But the 458 female Nazareth Baptists were found guilty of manslaughter. Punishment was spread thin over the entire group. Sentence: for eleven leaders, six months in jail; for the others, three months with sentence suspended after a promise to behave...
...When the time came, when Washington considered the Vag was prepared, he would receive, all cellophane-wrapped, his financially, psychologically, anthropologically, and philosophically compatible mate, and would settle down to a life of blissful contentment. With the fiery gusto of one who is consumed with a Burning Cause, Vag sat down at his typewriter and began a letter, "Dear President Roosevelt...
...Carr, Kirkland I-22: Tues., Thurs., Sat...
...Carr, Kirkland L-22: Tues, Thus., Sat...