Word: crap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...
...toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot...
...small, intensely loyal staff Publisher Thomason is "Uncle Emory." Female secretaries in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association say "he is the nicest president we ever had." A golf enthusiast, he once played 136 holes in a day, dined immediately afterward and then lost consciousness. He enjoys a crap game but would rather play chess, always carries a pocket-size chess board when he travels. With only a few minutes to catch a train to New York for a flying trip one day he made his business manager accompany him, without baggage, so he could have a chess opponent...
...does not share her unflagging belief in her brother's innocence. Neither do McKinley nor the Governor until Mr. Craven stumbles on the one flaw in the murderer's plot. If you are smart you might find the clue in this refreshingly upside-down mystery during the crap game...
...professional stage hands who accompany the Princeton Triangle Club show around its Christmas vacation circuit travel next to the locomotive in the "animal car." They shoot crap with the boys and are very funny. Several years ago, when the Triangle was playing Manhattan's august Metropolitan Opera House, one denizen of the animal car quarreled with one of the Metropolitan's resident stage crew...