Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms, gracefully dived off to join his dying family...
...Florida was against him, the U. S. Government was still legally friendly to Capone. His lawyers had secured from Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter at Miami a temporary injunction restraining Florida sheriffs from obeying the orders of Governor Doyle Carlton to toss Capone on sight out of the State. Last week Capone went into Federal Court, stood before Judge Ritter, denied he was operating any illegal business or that he was harboring criminals. Judge Ritter thereupon made permanent his injunction protecting Capone from State molestation, gave him some fatherly advice: "Inasmuch as the law's protecting arm is about...
...fiction have been impressed into celluloid to emerge upon the screen in almost recognizable form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled by Norma Shearer and the competent Lewis Stone. Its difficulties lie in its adaptation from the original play. The lack of variety in scene and the preponderance of long speeches, compensated on the legitimate...
Kojac should return winner in the 150-yard medley, but will be hard pressed by Clapp, Peterson of Northwestern, and Harris of Fordham. The 300-yard medley, the last event, should be a toss-up between Michigan, Northwestern, and Stanford, with Columbia, Minnesota, and Princeton fighting if out for fourth place...
Vice. James William Crabtree, secretary of the N. E. A., read a report on the moral vicissitudes of Detroit high school pupils. Although there were fewer toss-pots discovered among young Detroiters than in 1917, there was an increase in stealing, parental disrespect, sexual delinquency. To blame: dance halls, magazines, automobiles, liquor, broken homes...