Word: deke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove away hastily when it attracted attention-police later discovered that it contained movie photographers. Finally on a December night in 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his family left the country. When they were at sea, his friend "Deke" Lyman of the New York Times broke the story of their exile. The U. S. press heaped ashes on its head, too late...
...Last week Mr. Howard acquired a new associate in lively Merlin Hall ("Deke") Aylesworth, who will leave the chairmanship of Radio-Keith-Orpheum March 1 to become a Scripps-Howard executive-without-portfolio...
...Steeplejack" has not found out what should be done, but in its three issues so far it has achieved a campus following which gives it potential strength. It is frankly a journal of controversy, written by a wide variety of student minds:--football Deke presidents, solitary artists, staff-writers drawn from other publications, resurgent professors,--big-shots, and men left cold by the activities rush. Its headlines try to talk out in local terms, without any coating of whited sepulchre-Sunday magazine titles or vague, pretty wordings...
...coaxing them into his business. Having given up hope for Curtis Bok, he enlisted the aid of his daughter in gaining the ear of her younger son, Gary William. Gary, who resembles his big brother in quiet charm, mild humor and Dutch stubbornness, has followed him to Williams, into Deke and Gargoyle. He shared his brother's fondness for beer & ale and baseball, and he pitched on the varsity...