Word: bootlegs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yards last season, a new Dartmouth record, and accounted for nine touchdowns. So far this season, the 195-pound senior has tossed six scoring passes and has a mark of 40 completions in 83 attempts. In addition to his passing ability, Clayton is a running threat, specializing a bootleg play which he used very effectively in last year's 27 to 13 victory over the Crimson...
While Jordan ran new plays against the freshmen, Norm Shepard's jayvees simulated the passing attack of Dartmouth's Johnny Clayton, complete with Clayton's bootleg specialty. The varsity's defensive secondary had Isenberg and Buddy Lemay as backerups, Dusty Burke and Warden as halfbacks, and Red Wylie at the safety...
...when he was a skinny ten-year-old, spelling his father at the organ in a Chicago theater. He quit high school to play in a St. Louis speakeasy, wheeling his battered piano from table to table, collecting $40 to $60 a week in tips from enthusiastic bootleg-whisky drinkers. Later he got a job at a St. Louis radio station, singing, playing the organ, piano and accordion to fill in the morning hours before the regular staff straggled...
...owner of a store within two blocks of the President's house received a bootleg shipment of arms a week ago. He was promptly visited by three of the Yale black marketeers, who tried unsuccessfully to coerce him into raising his prices...
Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...