Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a flock of newshawks, Gangster Capone became expansive: ". . . Say, this is great weather you have here. It beats Miami. The old homestead looks okay. . . . I've been asked if I have come home to write the story of my life. I haven't. It would probably make a lot of money. The last bid I had was $2,000.000. . . . I saw a piece in one of the papers about a month ago telling about how I was going into the pictures. Can you fancy that...
...tell me anything about the shelter. I go there constantly. I mingle with the men and sleep there under disguise. I spend a great deal of my salary there. I've been all through the place seeing things for myself. I've found the food satisfactory and the men contented...
Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...
This is the first time I've written your publication and may I hope you will give this correspondence as much prominence as you did the letters concerning the premature arrival of the Calles heir...
Surely you realize that "but for the grace of God" most of the rest of us (possibly even the august editors of TIME) would be in as embarrassing predicaments. I mean by that: we've been born with cooler natures and brought up with sterner standards, yet who is without...