Word: aliases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In seven languages-German, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Yiddish, Lettish, Esthonian-the Germans posted their proclamations, but Grischa could read not one of any seven, and in a few hours he was imprisoned again. For, the newest ordinance read that in the name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed...
Sly Professor Yuzo Tsubouchi writes popular dramas under the nom de plume Shoyo Tsubouchi, an alias which remained impenetrable for many years.
Jerry the Greek, alias Jerry the Rubber, Jerry Luvadis, is a less shady character. Incapable of reading or writing, he is a trainer of Jack Dempsey, is famed for a perfume stronger than ammonia which he uses in large quantities.
"Betty Hanna" granddaughter of Mark, is Washington's (D. C.) most successful young business woman. Her shop, the Betty Hanna, numbers many a patron of wealth and distinction. Great was the distress, therefore, of fashionable Washington when it learned, last week, that Mrs. Richard Porter Davidson, alias shopkeeper Betty...
Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed...