Word: billiken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customers at the Fort Shelby Hotel bar in Detroit recognized an old face. James Francis Dewey, looking like a billiken in a black Homburg hat, was back in town, this time to settle the General Motors fight...
...Billiken with a Bellyache," fighting as often for progress and reforms as for "the good old days." No person...
Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...