Many of the film's most memorable moments owe an obvious debt to the visual dexterity of Charlie Chaplin's best scenes, as when Umberto, who has been practicing begging, suddenly turns his hand over, as though checking for rain, when a passerby makes a move to give him some money.
At Koh's Kids on Greenwich Street, the owner's jaw dropped lower and lower as Mr. Stone explained he was going to hand over a check for $2,300, the back rent on her store.
A month later, the two men met in Deer Park, N.Y., the indictment said, where Mr. Henry told the electrician, who had won a $1.4 million contract to work on the Rockville Centre bus depot, that he would not receive the money owed him or ever be hired again if he failed to hand over a check for $14,000.
Two were handed over for training while, as a precaution, the remaining six were sent the 2/117th Field Workshops for inspection and checking.
More than 40 people were in line, many ready to hand over a check.
When marketers and publicists who once saw buyers line up to sign contracts were asked what they now consider a "hot" level of sales, they said they were happy if two or three buyers had signed contracts in the last month or so, and had actually handed over checks for the 10percentt down payments.
Late Friday, Mexican officials handed over a check for just over $16 million, and Metalclad handed back the deed.
That day, without a court order, Enriquez-Alonso's family handed over a check for $150,000, along with an expression of remorse.
After a few more friendly gibes, Mary D., as she's known on this picturesque island that is 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, handed over a check for $184.44 to cover someone's electric bill.
Providence Hogan, the former PTA treasurer at Public School 29 in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to three counts of grand larceny in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday and handed over a check for $50,000, while agreeing to pay back the remainder of the money she embezzled — $32,392.91 — over two years.
On Dec. 17, a lawyer representing Fred Trump went to the Castle's casino cage, handed over a check for $3.35 million as "front money," filled out several forms and walked out with an equivalent amount of $5,000 chips in a briefcase, commission documents show.
