Word: badger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he gets out of jail, Eddie decides to try the badger game. He has Ruby invite a married admirer to the apartment, plans to break in on the couple in time to practice blackmail. Instead, overcome by jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies. Eddie runs away, Ruby goes to the reformatory. Eddie visits her, persuades an elderly colored clergyman calling on his wayward daughter to marry them in the institution's chapel. Their wedding, with policemen who have gotten wind of Eddie's presence pounding on the door, is the high...
...trail's a lane, the trail's a lane. Dead is the branding fire. The prairies wild are tame and mild, All close corralled with wire. -Badger Clark...
Sylvia Sidney is first seen preparing to leave jail, ready to forget her dishonest husband who implicated her in the old badger game. She is free, with five dollars in her pocketbook. Three dollars and sixty-five cents for train fare and a few days in the big city. Broke, A rainy night. Into a taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice...
...answer is that this is a very special problem. It needs the establishment of machinery suitable for the purpose in hand. The CRIMSON needs to be reminded that here is a separate problem. It needs to badger the authorities into treating the problem as an annul affair, demanding annual reconsideration and solution. The men chosen by the CRIMSON this spring to serve as Assistant Managing Editors will run the papers throughout the autumn. From their ranks will be chosen the CRIMSON'S two Presidents from their class. Such a series as this should be long in preparation. The functional organization...
...Lenz-Assmannsheim cost $1,500. In 1918 most people in the U. S. would not have taken a dachshund as a gift. Grotesquely squat and sausage-like, the dog made an apt symbol for propagandizing cartoonists. Furtively clinging to its pets, the Dachshund Club changed its name to "The Badger Dog Club...