Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash, but when bond prices follow the same destructive course, there is reason for the gravest apprehension...
Next day 50,000 New Yorkers gave $112,000 more for the unemployed, to watch the professional New York Giants smash up a collection of ill-conditioned Notre Dame graduates...
...bulletin to the press he formally charged that, in order to discredit the Fascist Party, the Communist Party caused its members to smash the windows and to shout with diabolic cunning as they did so, "Hail Hitler...
...years ago, Shepard refused to eat, to wear clothes, acted mad so convincingly he was declared insane. In the asylum he dropped his role too soon, was found normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict Shepard reiterated to appear insane. Two weeks before Convict Shepard's execution it was discovered he had gouged out his eyes...