Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valley he mistook the irrigation stand-pipes for flower pots and planted geraniums in them. When the water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last May but sat among the extras and left by the side door. He wears...
...seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living on liquor and were dog tired, were sort of dozing. Suddenly Denton winked at Trimmer. Then he grabbed the gun in Tindol's lap and shot. Then he shot Traxler. Tindol reached for his rifle and Denton shot him again...
...Dog" Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...
...promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns men. Solitary confinement burns minds. Max Becker...
...sweltering Manhattan last week the feet of one Daniel Long, 66 and unwell, stumbled under him. As the dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8° F., highest in that vast old hospital's records...