Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klein and Mr. Platz, partners, bachelors, garment merchants, stipulated a condition: Mae Jordan should not receive payment for doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
...your kidding of correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either be right or wrong, and most particularly do I delight in your sophistry in an age when the daily papers are so shocked at every tiny incident, be it a street car off the track, just another murder, or scandal in public life. It is indeed a restful and soothing experience to approach my newsstand each week. DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL...
Last week William V. Dwyer, sportsman, race track owner, head of a $40,000,000 liquor syndicate, was convicted along with his "payoff man," E. C. Cohron, of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty under the law. Asked by U. S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner if he had received a "square deal," Mr. Dwyer smiled. "Positively," he said...
Reported Engaged. Bebe Daniels, 25, motion picture star; to Charlie Paddock, world-famed track athlete...
...riding up the Hudson River in the cars, their wrists manacled to the wrists of impassive burlies who usually sit on the aisle side of the seat. Just before the trains reach Ossining station there is a platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges off the platform into Sing Sing, New York...