Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments of $10 a month for years. If the borrower complains they threaten to tell his employer and family, to let all the neighbors know. Most distasteful angle to this busi- ness is that the same victims are trapped again & again. Bankruptcies among families of small means often show that they have been blood-sucked by usurers for many months, often years...
Madeira. When revolution seemed to threaten the little Portuguese isle, the "Lion of Poland" showed a tendency to yawn, to sprawl his bulk with even more abandon upon small wicker chairs...
...wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa Sig, and stocky James O. Harrison Simrall Jr., quarterback, captain of the 1930 football team, a Phi Delt, and two editors of the Michigan Daily were booked along...
...many bears threaten to spoil the touring in Yellowstone Park too many beavers interfere with travel in Palisades InterstatePark (New York and New Jersey). Two dozen of the nocturnal, Hooveresque rodents dammed one stream so successfully that it backed up and floodeda highway. Major W. A. Welch, the park manager and engineer, set traps, caught the entire offending colony, saved State money by transferring the animals last week to a swamp which he wanted transformed into a lake to improve the scenery...
...Evanston, Ill., A. J. Robinson was released from custody when he promised no more to threaten death to Professor Ernest Laurer of Northwestern University. Declared Robinson: "My daughter, Roslyn, attended Professor Laurer's class in history five years ago. He taught her the theory of evolution. . . . She began to brood over it and that led to a nervous breakdown and death. I blame him for her death...