Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close to the White House. There with two assistants and a clerk he read proof on the Commission's unfinished reports. In 25 months the Commission had spent $475,000 of its $500.000 appropriation. It had made four reports to the President : 1) Prohibition (preliminary); 2) Prohibition (final); 3) crime statistics; 4) prosecutions...
...street between the White House and the State Department. No, no, no, nothing to say. He twirled his cane nervously. "Are you still optimistic?" asked a pert newshawk. The Secretary stopped, turned, answered: "Yes, I am. If anything happens to the President's plan, it would be a crime." Then he crossed the street, neatly dodging a delivery truck...
...Beudard, now mayor of a provincial French town but once a rover who murdered for money, is confronted with a man whom he thinks he recognizes as his old crony in crime. He is all ready to leave the country when he discovers the man is not his old pal after all, heaves a sigh, goes on being mayor...
Rover Wales was reminded that for a private person to possess gold in Russia is a crime. He was told that a Chinese caught in Irkutsk with 1,600 ounces of gold was "sent to the salt mines at hard labor" despite his foreign nationality...
Born in The Bronx, she left school to go on the stage, stole the play when, in Crime, she sat on a park bench and said "Squeeze me" to boy friends. She has her make-up prescribed for her by a chemist; other kinds poison her. Scarcely five feet tall, she loathes outdoor exercise, has a quick temper and five nicknames (Slivick, Monkey, Goofy, Brat, Funny Face). She speaks Yiddish, wears no underclothes, cannot eat eggs, can twist her right wrist so that it cracks, likes to go to Bellevue Hospital to hear lectures on psychology...