Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VERSE- "God is Love," the Graphic replied: ". . . It was the least gruesome of all the pictures New York newspapers published of the murdered man's body. It . . . encompassed the whole Collings mystery story. It was a picture of murder and the forces of society at work attempting to unravel the mystery. . . . "As to the matter of theft ... the Times would count any photographer on its staff a total loss who folded his camera and went home merely because some one told him not to make a picture. The Times is a funny old bat of a sheet, anyhow...
Cuban Philo. In the best tradition of detective fiction, Cuban Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb...
...fact that he had a great new home in Lexington, Mass, and slept in lavender pajamas. To Ponzi's creditors last week were mailed checks representing ½% of their claims. This payment, the last, made a total of 37½% paid since the first attempt were made to unravel Ponzi's wrecked web, destruction of which brought down several Boston trust companies. Charles Ponzi is now in Boston State Prison. In 1920 he was sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. In 1924 his term was over, but he was convicted on a State...
...buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern moral fibre, he lets his good fortune unravel him further. His wife leaves him. he becomes a come-on for many, especially chorus wenches with necks for neck- laces. At the crash he is sold out, retires to a bootlegger's farm in Connecticut, whence he indites a form letter to his creditors asking them to advance...
...returns of the Prohibition Poll indicate that the net result of the attempt of the older generation to solve its liquor problem has been a new problem which younger hands must someday unravel. Legislation of the Volstead Act and Jones Law calibre is no way out of the alcohol tangle. 24,000 college men and women in eighteen different colleges have examined. Prohibition and found it wanting...