Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City...
...most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism to the handsomer ducks. High words- rascal, duck-dodger, miser-followed. Rupor struck with a spade, Koman fell down dead. The policemen who came for Rupor found him asleep...
Some hundreds of curious-minded peasants streamed into the little town of Mosbach last week to attend the trial of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famed Philadelphia draft dodger, who was arrested (TIME, Feb. 22) on a charge of having seduced, three years ago, Fraulein Leisel Schmidt, Heidelberg schoolgirl, then...
...Philadelphia draft-dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll continued to cool his heels in the jail at Mosbach, Germany, last week (TIME...
...this column we once called Grover Bergdoll, America's most infamous draft dodger, a bum. Recent news from Germany indicates that he has been doing his best- or worst-to prove we were right...