Word: denting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Miss Williams as she entered the jail were her mother, father and brother Dent, 25. A prudent sheriff searched Dent Williams for weapons and was not surprised to find a revolver. The family was then led into a room where a Negro named Willie Peterson, suspected of the crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...
Last week, Miss Williams took one look at Negro Peterson and nodded. Suddenly the room was filled with smoke, flame and sound. Dent Williams had whipped out another gun, concealed in the waistband of his trousers, and had done what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released...
...Last week the crew of a switch engine in Kansas City stated they had seen the plane brush a grain elevator with its wingtip soon after the takeoff. They said that three days later they found a dent on the fire escape of the elevator, about where the wing was supposed to have struck...
Daniel Carson Goodman, 48, M.D., has been a theatrical producer, cinema executive, author, businessman (he is vice presi- dent of Celotex Co., of Southern Sugar Co.), one of the late Cinemactress Alma Rubens' husbands. He has also written: Hagar Revilly, Because of Women, Battle of the Sexes...
...busi ness: altars, communion railings, statuary, all other marble church accessories. Among its clients were the Vatican, St. Patrick's in New York, St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Paul, Minn., St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, Mo. But last week McBride's went into receivership. Explained Presi dent Paul Henry McBride: "People are putting 25 cents into the plate instead...