Word: galena
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Single Jeopardy. In Galena, Alaska, William Pete, 37, overjoyed at his acquittal on wife-beating charges, rushed over to thank the jury, burbled: "I promise never to beat her again...
Horrified and dismayed by the notoriety that clung to Billy even in death, members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone...
...marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World insisted that "the Grant sons, but for the accident of their father's presidency, might have been respectable drygoods clerks in Galena...
...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...busy about its bustling, wartime present. The mines were going at their fullest blast since the depression, Butte's 300 saloons still worked nightily to quench its thirst, the girls of its ' Venus Alley" still sat in front of their cribs as did those of oldtime Galena Street, its cuisine still ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns in the U.S., still a U.S. legend out of which...