Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swart Jack Zuta, business manager of Chicago's North Side (anti-Capone) crime gang was suspected by police of having planned the murder of Capone's friend, Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune (TIME, June 23). He narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical...
Just then eight men filed in, lined up, produced a submachine gun, an automatic pistol and two "belly guns" (sawed off shotguns). They blew all the life out of swart Jack Zuta...
Forty miles away in Cicero, Ill. that evening, swart Alfonse ("Scarface") Capone and 100 friends staged a homecoming party for Capone, who had arrived that day by plane from Florida...
...Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...
...haired dasher Frank Wycoff of Southern California who was recently clocked over a Hundred in one-tenth of a second less than Tolan's time but whose record was too recent to be considered by the Federation last week. It did make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting blocks, Simpson threw away his blocks and went out to practice...