Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
Black was the Chicago reputation of Willie Doody. Police, searching for him for six months, called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
...Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune...
Many of the automobile pioneers were frostbitten, ugly, rough-tongued, heavyhanded, but they spent nights in their half-built factories tightening nuts on rush orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General Motors, left a room full of irritated financial patrons to eat apple pie, and, mouth full, to roar full-chested laughter at a squib...
...Authors. Theodore F. MacManus is the head of MacManus, Inc., an advertising agency which has handled the accounts of Cadillac, Chrysler, Dodge Brothers, Hupmobile, and has made the phrase "Body by Fisher" known by all those who like beautiful girls. He has known the great and the near-great of the industry almost from the start. He looks at and writes of them as impeccable titans...