Word: doy
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...Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from...
Last week she pardoned one Doy Arnold of Mineral Wells, described (without qualification) in the news columns of the New York Times as the perpetrator of "a crime against a woman as revolting as any ever perpetrated in the history of Texas." His sentence was originally set at 198 years, of which Mr. Arnold had served one and a half...