Word: dickeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Brooks was a 3-year-old moppet, romping on a Virginia plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed...
...LAURENCE DICKEY...
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...
Catcher: Lopez (Dodgers) Dickey (Yankees...
...mild dementia nor a desire to attract attention. He is somewhat absentminded. Pitching against Cleveland in his first year with the Yankees, he was warned to be careful of Averill, who was on a batting rampage. At the beginning of the second inning he whispered anxiously to Catcher Dickey: "Be sure to let me know when Averill comes up." Catcher Dickey informed him that Averill had struck out in the first. The following year the Yankees were playing a crucial game against Washington; there were two men out and three on base; suddenly his teammates saw Gomez...