Word: monstering
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...gave the answer last week in Old Bailey, or rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About to break last week was a swindle story which U. S. Department of Justice operatives in Chicago and Philadelphia said will reveal a "monster ring of British swindlers" led by Chicago's dapper John ("Jake the Barber") Factor. According to the Secret Service, Mr. Factor, operating with British associates in London and at Le Touquet, has fleeced numerous prominent Britons, including Edward of Wales, out of no less than $7,000,000. To Department...
...thing more, not covered in the articles -most of the guests at the Tampa dinner passed their plates for second helpings of rattlesnake. Furthermore they all knew what they were eating inasmuch as the writer at the beginning of the feast presented the photo [see cut] of the particular monster sacrificed to the cannery...
...monster shot under the Albany bridge of the Hudson River, heading downstream, a monster shaped like a huge boat, edged with foam and letting out an enormous engine roar. Quickly the monster lost its symmetry, split up into 101 separate hydroplane, outboard and runabout motor boats. In its roar the drone of individual engines could be distinguished. In the boats, bouncing on the floorboards in their padded driving suits, clutching their wheels with one hand while with the other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again...
...most unusual 1931 rookie from the Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
...June 30. Soon he revised it up to $350,000,000. When Congress passed the Bonus Loan bill he boosted it to $500,000,000. Last week Treasury officials were talking of a deficit of $700,000,000 to $800,000,000- the first deficit since 1920 and a monster when it came. The staggering size of the DEFICIT immediately provoked political speculation about an increase in taxation to pull the Treasury out of the red. Republican leaders last week predicted that tax rates would not be raised on the eve of next year's national campaign...