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...became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of "Waxey Gordon" as he advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life of $10 silk underwear and Pierce-Arrows...
...Theory and practice" will be the byword for George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry. After is return from an annual trip to Los Alsmos, Kistiakowsky will do physical-chemical research into the nature of explosions and enzymes...
...Rock 'em and soek 'em!" That is the newest byword on Soldiers Field, a carry-over from Coach Lloyd Jordan's days at Pittsburgh. It can often be heard when the team comes out of its Muddle, and it is an expression that will probably come in for a good deal of use around the Stadium this fall...
...Rock 'em and sock 'em!" That is the newest byword on Soldiers Field, a carry-over from Coach Lloyd Jordan's days at Pittsburgh. It can often he heard when the team comes out of its huddle, and it is an expression that will probably come in for a good deal of use around the Stadium this fall...
...over 30 years. They first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Chinless, blowhard Andy Gump, his long-suffering, last-wording wife Min, and their billionaire Uncle Bim became as familiar to millions of newspaper readers as the neighbors, and Andy's anguished cry for help ("O, Mini") was a byword of the '30s. When a minor character called Mary Gold was heartlessly killed off (the first U.S. comic-strip figure to die), thousands of readers protested...