Word: loft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Fielding she told a tale which might have been sliced from his own Tom Jones. She claimed that she was seized by two ruffians, robbed, dragged to a bawdyhouse where a gypsy hag with a nightmare face ripped her stays (value: 10/) from her, locked her up in the loft. There Elizabeth languished until she escaped through a boarded window. The gypsy crone was tried before the Lord Mayor of London, condemned to the gallows...
...Manhattan, however, Albert Greenfield was still regarded as a first-rate real-estate man. Last week Loft Candy Corp., in which a Greenfield-headed syndicate has acquired 32% of the stock, elected him chairman of the board. With his associate, Candy-Man Jacob Beresin, as president, Real-Estate Man Greenfield was expected to solve the real-estate problem under the Loft chain of 161 candy stores, put the company (now divorced from Pepsi-Cola-rich Loft, Inc.) back on its feet. Sighed Greenfield softly, "I would have preferred to serve Loft's in some capacity not involving a title...
...Dewey and J. Edgar Hoover both on his neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up to the FBI chief. Month ago he slouched into Federal court. Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory, Sing Sing, ex-loft burglar, racketeer, gorilla chief, suspected of many a murder, Lepke was there to stand trial on the first of ten indictments for smuggling dope...