Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasoline station in Trenton, N. J., one Edward Frommel, a man with a hickory leg, sat smoking. It was late at night. In a cigar box over Mr. Frommel's head lay a wad of dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with...
...were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the bartender was called over. Money changed hands-to each of the ruffians a yellow bill, to the bartender a large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until one of them fell down. To the man left standing the bartender handed the the wad. Thus were championship prize fights arranged...
When she reached home she unfolded the wad, read it. Following her husband's instructions she proceeded to effect his escape from prison last week...
...abetted the winning Smith campaign to the tune of $500,000. The Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made only two statements for newspaper publication...
During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...