Word: caley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest story tells of Kip Caley, bank robber and desperado, who, while serving time for one of his jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion...
...prison chaplain makes the best suggestion: that Caley take a job as his gardener until the excitement about him dies down. Instead, the Senator carries him off to the city, shows him off to his friends for a while, then-puzzled by the big fellow's innocent evangelism-gets him a sort of personal-appearance job at a night club. Caley reigns there for a time, falls in love, gets his life story printed in the newspapers. Then people again turn apathetic. With only shady prospects before him now, Caley realizes at last how little belief there...
...book contains at least one very good passage: the description of the street fight and chase in which Caley receives his death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff...
...Gold Coast-Rabbit game Johnny Hallett's home run brought a 4-0 victory for the Gold Coaster. The summary: Score--Kirkland 6, Winthrop 5. KIRKLAND WINTHROP Sieman, 2b. ss., Crampton Peter, cf. 3b., Letarie Parker, 1f. 2b., Randall Caley, rf. 1b., Bittenbender Christophe, 3b lf., Emery Powell, 1b. ef., Leon Moweley, ss. p., Baker Donnelley, Robinson, c. c. Egan Wells, p. rf., McDonald
Kirkland: Ducey, Donnelly, l.e.; Baker, l.t.; Gilbert, Feldman, l.g.; Merry, c.; Bushman, r.g.; Brook, r.t.; Foss, Caley, r.e.; Parker, q.b.; Rodgers, Forbes, Pratt, h.b.; Callaway...