Word: racketeered
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...first day, her fingernails red and shiny as her racket strings, Helen Wills Moody played Phyllis Mudford. In a match against Mrs. Moody, almost every woman player looks as inefficient as Mrs. Moody would look if she were playing one of the top ten men. She netted one shot in the first set, played the Mudford backhand when she needed a point, won, 6-1, 6-4. Helen Jacobs has not been playing so well as usual this year; Mrs. Moody beat her 6-0, 6-0 a fortnight ago. When Helen Jacobs beat Betty Nuthall...
...went off as nicely as you please. Later that night his announcer and his star singer were murdered. In the crowded hours that followed, Danny was in at several more deaths, just missed his own more than once; but kept his head, his appointments and his job, plumbed the racket that was causing the trouble, rounded up the crooks and married the girl...
Hollywood last week remarked with interest the formation of a new cinema producing company-Selznick-Milestone Pictures, Ltd. Director general of the new company was Lewis Milestone (The Racket, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page). President was David 0. Selznick. At 28, David Selznick has sometimes been described as one of the bright young men in an industry full of dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where...
...court in pendulum fashion through the next two sets, won them both at 6-3. In the fourth set, Doeg went to the net whenever he could, ran up a three-game lead and won, 6-3. In the sixth game of the last set, Vines kissed his racket when a smash he had hit with the frame dropped into the court for an ace. The ace helped him break Doeg's service, win the match...
...racket of imposing upon Harvard families can only be stopped by individual precautions; such crimes as portrait slashings, which can only be the work of an insane man, are impossible to foresee and almost as difficult to trace, while their prevention involves procedure far too impractical. In a similar way, any further measures to protect the treasures of libraries and museums must unavoidably entail "red tape" which may even outweigh the saving. Yet the point of least loss and inconvenience can only be reached after experimentation towards both extremes. Present regulations have apparently proved unsatisfactory; a period of stricter protective...