Word: dasher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marquand's badgered males seldom know where they're really heading. Undergraduate Marquand resembled one of his own heroes. He had concentrated on chemistry, like Fellow Dasher Conant, but after hitting the books with some success (he took his degree in three years), he decided that science was not his field. The most attractive job he could find was a place as a cub reporter on the Boston Transcript. He was just learning his way around when President Wilson called out the National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that...
...sleek greyhounds, Ballymack Border and Rossbane Dasher, were running neck & neck down the stretch. Suddenly Ballymack Border did what tiring dogs often do: he turned on his challenger, knocked him out of the race. The favorite, Rossmir Biddy, breezed past them both...
Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua...
...week's end the outcry led Brigadier General Charles Dasher, Rome area commander, to hold up the letter-censoring order, for the time being...
...Dwyer got an earful. At the close of a 15-hour session the squat gunman had confessed to three murders, implicated himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave...