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Word: heeney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employees and has 125 regular U.S. clients and a European picture network. Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 23 Minutes to Anywhere | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle ; he was now referring to the animal as a roach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meandering Manners | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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