Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...
...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...
Harvard rejoiced in Quarterback Cheek, in Backs Zarakov and Gehrke, as she fell upon Virginia, 14 to 0. Cheek is a line-knifer; Zarakov an artful, eel-hipped dodger; Gehrke's punts sail...
...artful, eel-hipped dodger...
...spite of all the reforms which have been brought to pass by an enlightened society, descendants of Fagin and Bill Sykes still roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...