Word: doe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always tell Louie's courses. He writes straight across both pages. Sometimes he takes the appendix home. I call him Doe when he does that--kidding. He got A in Ec A. That's a guy with imagination Joe. He goes back, he told me, sometimes as long as a year afterward and changes his handwriting and writes answers to his old gags...
...brother's fellow detectives. He pleaded "not guilty." He was held without bail and District Attorney Banton announced: "We have a beautiful case of circumstantial evidence." Gambler McManus, who refused to talk to Attorney Banton, smiled. He knew that warrants were out for the arrest of Jane Doe, John Doe and Richard Roe-persons as yet uncaught by Attorney Banton but suspected perhaps more than McManus of having actually committed the murder in Room 349. Further apprehensions were still delayed last week. The Grand Jury indicted McManus and one Hyman (''Gillie") Biller, the late Rothstein...
Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe...
Curious is the fact that U. S. and British news organs, when libeling or exposing, make incessant use of such phrases as "alleged," "charged," "understood." Legally it is quite as libelous to pussyfoot, "John Doe is an alleged swindler," as to boldly print, "John Doe is a swindler." Psychological explanation: writers and editors feel safer when they pussyfoot, as do ostriches with heads in sand...
...College has grown, the common meeting grounds have tended to disappear. Classes have been broken up and their members scattered in distant dormitories. That ancient institution, the Fence, has lost its charm. John Doe and the social celebrity, no longer sit side by side on its top rail and aimlessly while away the time between classes. The old beer shops, where all gathered Saturday night for an evening of good fellowship, are but a sacred memory. In their place have come movies, cars, and wholesale migrations known as the "week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand...