Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about a rich New Yorker named Shattuck...
...Federal District Court in Illinois last week, Dr. Andrew C. Kelly sued the Mercyville Sanatorium and St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, both of Aurora, for $200,000. While a patient, Dr. Kelly tried to kill himself, was restrained, he claimed, by use of leather and metal straps "so unskilfully adjusted" as to cause his hand to be permanently crippled...
...well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England, $300 in Italy or France...
...three disc manufacturers of the U. S.* agreed with the A. F. of M. on a closed shop for musicians in the record industry. The manufacturers have already established in court their right as patent owners to determine how their discs may be used commercially. There was thus little sign of legal squalls ahead when the A. F. of M. last week got the manufacturers to agree that so far as coin machines are concerned, discs may not be used in any place which has ever employed musicians, or any place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however...
...making fresh apple pie by draining off the apple juice and sugar through a colander and pouring it back into the pie through holes in the crust while baking. He did not demonstrate his fresh strawberry pie, which he says "has never been revealed to the housewife." Recipe: use frozen fresh strawberries, freeze again immediately after cooking. The strawberries remain whole...