Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bing Crosby's bid for the Boston Braves because Bing owned a racing stable. In 1940, he waved his wand and made free agents of 92 players who had signed Detroit Tigers contracts (because Detroit used its farm clubs to "cover up" players). He always championed the little guy...
...Otto Wilson first politely denied, then politely confessed his crimes. In his cell, red-eyed, unsteady, but calm, he kept his black hair neatly combed. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Outside, his first victim's husband cried to police: "Leave me alone with that guy for five minutes and I'll save the state a lot of money...
...European Theater. Last week, while he was in London awaiting transportation to a new assignment. Reasoner lost $140 in cash, had his kitbag stolen and learned that the dog he left in London had gone off with somebody named Jerry. Said Reasoner: "I'm just an eight-ball guy...
Mademoiselle Fifi (RKO-Radio), as admirers of Guy de Maupassant will remember, was the nickname of a bored, cruel young Prussian lieutenant in the Occupied France of 1870. His story is combined with that of Maupassant's Boule de Suif, gallant prototype of a hundred storied prostitutes who, in their humaneness and courage, shame their social betters...
...Furriner" in the Ozarks. A onetime farmer and teacher in his native Iowa, 52-year-old Guy Howard felt the Gospel call ten years ago. Although his Ozark people love him now, many of them resented him at first, even to the extent of burning down his school. He was "a furriner" and it took him a long time to live down the mountaineers' suspicion that his Bible was just a disguise to hide a revenue officer's badge...