Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other...
...unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow so and so's have we killed?" A San Francisco motorist: "Down the street I almost ran over a Jap on a motorcycle. Maybe I should have...
Columnist Pearson, the more politic of the Pearson & Allen team, had long made himself agreeable to Publisher Patterson. He brought her their column-generally believed to be one of her paper's best circulation-pullers-in 1934 for $100 a week. (Cissie liked its pro-New Deal slant then.) To please her he even went so far as to judge Times-Herald beauty contests...
...that a series of biting articles on Rumanian politicians had been bought up and suppressed for more money than printed articles ever brought. Soon Lazareff learned that there was no newspaper in Paris at that time that could not be bought. Either the French Government subsidized the paper to slant political news or the papers openly solicited subsidies from political parties, industrial groups and foreign countries. Even stuffy Le Temps, for years the most widely quoted French newspaper, took money from Russian Tsarists, later from Communists...
...Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast's 70,000-odd Nisei. Their honorable ancestors were Japanese...