Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Saturday might the Square will know an unaccustomed quiet. No students will be tying up the traffic, or pouring down the subway steps on their way to Boston. The Sidewalk Superintendents' Club will suspend its frequent meetings. Call cards and books will ease up their frenzied shuttling across the Widener delivery desk. Harvard won't really be in Cambridge any more, but will be scattered all over the country. In a crisis, it's a refreshing thing...
...cannot buy many things they want, such as bicycles, precision instruments, gold objects, cameras, radios, gasoline, clothing. (Each German man is allowed one overcoat, must turn in his old one when buying the new.) And so they buy theatre and concert tickets, books, champagne, and the handsome ladies who frequent the Taverne and Jockey Clubs...
...himself. Arrested last week on a grand larceny charge, he admitted he had kept the policies secret from his company, kept some $8,000 in premiums to apply on a personal budget which included fat sums for social clubs, a new home on Seattle's swank Broadmoor Drive, frequent visits to nearby Longacres race track. After investigation, a Seattle prosecutor concluded that high-living Hal French had held out other policies too, pocketed perhaps as much...
...lose their own fortunes in search for three pirate hoards (worth perhaps $60,000,000) which legend has buried about its shores. Biggest find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
...spun out, the testimony seemed confirm the frequent assertion that Communist zealots will use any means to achieve their desired ends. The court heard that Elvira Copelo had been the mistress of one of Prestes' closest comrades. After the latter went to jail in 1938, the girl often visited him, took messages to Communists outside. The Brazilian police found her a handy, unconscious guide to the hideaways of agitators. One day six Brazilians went to the house of Elvira Copelo, were asked in for coffee. When Elvira Copelo at length rose to clear away the coffee cups...