Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term shortened by behavior so exemplary that he had become, besides its most famed athlete, the keeper of the prison's zoo and a trusty who had the run of warden Lewis E. Lawes' household, Edwin Collins Pitts emerged...
...Elgin, Ill., Maniac Kenneth Ortt, 20, dodged around the top of a 150-ft. water tower, threatening suicide while a squad of firemen with a life net tried to keep under him. Ortt jumped, missed...
...rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests administered last rites to one & all. Meanwhile Rockville's volunteer firemen were sorting out the living from the dead...
...over a decade the fumbling artistic strivings of housewives, dentists, firemen, butlers, patent attorneys, and taxi drivers have provided a field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...
...blaze was of unknown origin and the firemen made short work of putting it out. There was no damage to the building...