Word: bashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of nearly $100,000, and given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...
Elections at the meeting resulted in the choice of the following seven men: two each from the Graduate Schools, Junior, and Sophomore classes, and one Freshman, for the governing committee: Bernard Barber '39, Wendell Bash 3G, John B. Blair '39, Calvin H. Elliott '40, Lester H. Geist '41, Dudley Kirk 2G, Norman J. Richards '40. When the group next meets, two of these will be chosen as officers...
Charles W. Huntley, Schenectady, New York, assistant in Psychology; Donald V. McGranahan '35, Malden, assistant in Psychology; Fillmore H. Sanford, Luray, Virginia, assistant in Psychology; Wondell H. Bash, Dos Moines, Iowa, Drake '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology...
...hunt of their bugle-voiced foxhounds by ear alone. Of this breed was Bugle Ann, a real bugler, rare even among its own kind, about which MacKinlay Kantor wrote his short best-selling novel, played in the picture by a prize bitch from the pack of Sheriff Tom Bash of Kansas City, Mo. Bitch, to be sure, was a word Spring Davis (Lionel Barrymore) would not allow used for his lady-dog. He believed in general that a dog was as good a friend as a man, except that it had none of a man's faults. When...
...bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained...