Word: ve
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There are a lot of expenses." A man needed partners or a fingerman, and "good conservative clothes to be inconspicuous and live in good hotels so you won't be noticed, coming and going. Even on $1,000 a month...
...Then Marshall aid started, and black was put on the list. We've never had to worry since. Regular as clockwork the trucks have arrived, loaded with bags of black. The machines have kept...
...some of his old salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
...ve always wanted most of all to write plays," confessed Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry...
...been "motivated by a mood of joyfulness." ¶Ben Shahn's 73 words were as incisive as his art: "I'll say this much: that art is my particular form of speech, and what ever I feel about men who sing and play guitars, I've said in the present picture...