Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...truck rattled up. Judge Bradley was thrown up into it. A dirty handkerchief was tied across his eyes. The truck drove a mile out of town, stopped at a lonely crossroad. Again the judge was asked to sign no more foreclosures. Again he refused. He was slapped and kicked, knocked to the ground, jerked back to his feet. A rope was tied about his neck. The other end was thrown over a roadside sign. The noose tightened. Judge Bradley wheezed, thought they were killing...
...sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king, brings the action to a head with shootings, typewriters, pineapples, and fights in the approved style, with, of course, the appropriate happy ending...
...three decided the social pace there was too fast for them, moved on to get away from cocktails and all-night parties. On their leisurely way back Wauthier and Seabrook joined in a hunt for missing French airmen, Companion Worthington was temporarily lost crossing the Sahara in a motor truck, but they all left Africa together, flew home safe & sound...
Comrade Litvinov, born Wallach, first attracted world attention 27 years ago in Paris. In the streets of Tiflis in the Caucasus an armored truck of the Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov appeared at a window of the Credit Lyonnais in Paris with a sheaf of 500-ruble notes recognized as part of the Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman...