Word: swag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...
...place, with only an out-side chance of catching up with the league-leading Pirates-or the Giants and Reds who were threatening to take the lead. But as the Pirates faltered in the home stretch, the Cubs, well aware that there was about $5,000 in World Series swag for each player, kept inching ahead in one of the most exciting stretch finishes since 1908, when the National League race ended in a dead heat...
...brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge swag chiefly to local junk yards by means of forged bills of sale. Most puzzling problem he left in his wake was a big overhead electric crane, which he had sold to a firm of contractors for $250 and which they had paid $350 to move from the Diener plant, where...
...know them, because they've paid attention only to the particular lines of descent that had the money and the prestige. And 99 times out of 100 those lines of descent got their money and prestige-like the royal families of Europe-by grabbing some swag 300 years ago and holding on for dear life ever since...
Thereafter, the comedy in The Goose and the Gander consists of the efforts of the guests at the lodge to conceal their identities. The picture's suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...