Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...
...strangled her and shot himself. Both principals give an excellent ac count of themselves: Arthur Sinclair, strong, decent, generous; Miss Hayes, frustrated, impetuous, affecting. Many a Gaelophile had an evening's entertainment just listening to a lot of good Irish ac cents. Happily, Miss Hayes did not at tempt the brogue. Arthur Sinclair (McDonnell), 47, is a Dubliner by birth, studied for the bar, abandoned the legal profession when he was 17 to join the famed Irish Players at the Abbey theatre. In 1911 he made his U. S. debut in The Rising of the Moon. He later appeared...
...sort of racketeer protection) of legal and charitable support in time of trouble, and of fraternal intercourse. There are some 60,000 Chinese in the U. S. Most of them belong to a Tong, of which there are about 15. Initiation fees, dues, give the Tongs big treasuries, tempt the leaders. Most Tong wars are caused by defection to the ranks of rival organizations, business rivalry, racketeering. Most notable Tongs are: On Leong, Hip Sing, Yan Wo, Tai Look, Tai Pang, Tong On. Over all western Tongs is the Peace Society, over all eastern Tongs, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association...