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Word: crockett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about all the women he has known and all the men he has killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arizona Hemingway | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dealey of Dallas | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was "a virtual maniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Exchange | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Chief Clerk Crockett intoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riot of Oratory | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Pleased with Daniel Boone, Producer George A. Hirliman commissioned Screenwriter Edgecumb Pinchon to write two more scenarios based on school-book lore: one with Sam Houston as hero, one with Davy Crockett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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