Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...negotiated with a Chicago gunman to kill two famed gangsters, Frankie Marlow, who was found with three shots through his head near a Flushing, L. I., cemetery (TIME, July 8) and Frankie Yale, who was riddled while automobile driving in Brooklyn (TIME. July 9, 1928). Terranova had signed a contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered $5,000, but because he had withheld the rest, the killer had threatened to turn the contract over to the police. Whereupon Terranova had arranged to meet the killer at the Bronx-banquet for a settlement, had obtained...
Meteor. The eyeballs of Alfred Lunt appear to contract with mad fixity of vision as he seethes through the part of Raphael Lord, adventurer and egoist extraordinary. Having hobnobbed with Central American banditti and other peculiar and remote persons, Lord appears at a New England college, drawn by the writings of one of its dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete...
...roads one-third of the Pullman fare. Size of the company is well illustrated by the amount of its laundering operations. Every day one million pieces of linen are washed, either in the company's own laundries or in other laundries that work for Pullman Co. on a contract basis. The company keeps on hand a supply of four million towels. About two million pieces of linen wear out or disappear each year; the annual new linen bill is in the neighborhood...