Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alerted all along the railroad to Chicago, Hoover, after a few hours' sleep, recovered fast enough to resume his gin rummy with his secretary. To a reporter who called on him, he said crisply: "I guess you just wanted to see if I was kicking. It'll take more than this to finish...
...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
Budd also trained Harry C. Murphy, 57, to take over the "Q" presidency. The road should feel no jolt when the hand on the throttle changes next month; Murphy has served under Budd for 17 years, and has been vice president in charge of operations since...
...that it was not yet his time to taste this pleasure after all, than he became suddenly convinced that a former friend, the Polish writer, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, was trying to kill him by filtering poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students. "The cheapest is cremation (50 francs)," he advised. "I do not want to lie in Swedish soil, for it is damned...
...seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted that all oases which spring from mere individual initiative are sure to be mirages...