Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square guy I've ever known." It also touches off the most authentic and exciting prison picture since The Big House (1930), one of the noisiest sound tracks ever heard outside an airplane epic, enough slugging, shooting...
...Ornery, cocky Oregonian Wayne Sabin, 23, a career tennist who thinks he is the second best player in the U. S. and can get several tennis fans to agree with him-primarily because his steady, all-round game has defeated almost every top-flight U. S. player (including his fellow-townsman Elwood Cooke four out of five times) in the circuit of southern tournaments last winter...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...wealthy widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot...