Word: delbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deficit Financing. In Dallas, caught redhanded trying to crack a safe, Delbert A. Bowers told the cops: "I'm going on trial tomorrow [for armed robbery] and I needed some money...
Private Hill went over the hill. He put on one of the costumes he used as a female impersonator, lit out for London and a magician's job. Billed as "Donna Delbert, the Female Fire-Eater," Hill toured music halls up & down Britain for four years, until one evening in 1947, when he met pretty, 28-year-old Betty Ardoino in an Islington...
...Before he was inducted at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1942, Delbert Eugene Hill was a professional entertainer in the U.S., billed as "America's Only Lady Magician." The Army put him in Special Services Division, shipped him off to England to amuse the Air Force. He did so well that he was once chosen to take part in a command performance before Queen Mary. By V-E day, he had become manager of the Burtonwood Air Base theater. Out of the blue, he received a reclassification notice; his new job was cleaning latrines...
Double Negative. In Chicago, Delbert Shinn was released by police after they had heard his argument that robbery of slot machines is not illegal, since slot machines are illegal...
Close Relations. In New Bern, N.C., identical twins Elbert and Delbert Doster were divorced by sisters Dorothy and Sarah Whitley, married cousins Edna and Theda Mallard...