Word: hickey
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Died. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell, 71, author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...Hickey soon recovered and mounted the gallows. A hangman yanked the platform out from under him. Then the body remained hanging in mid-air as the crowd gradually dispersed...
...Hickey was no ordinary criminal. He had been a member of General Washington's personal guard. He had been tried and convicted just two days earlier on a charge of "exciting and joining in a mutiny and sedition." Washington himself approved the sentence...
...Hickey and another soldier, Micah Lynch, were seized June 14 on a charge of trying to pass counterfeit money. In jail, they were heard boasting that they had secretly enlisted with the British and that hundreds of other Continental soldiers had done the same...
...William Green, the drummer in Washington's guard, was accused by Forbes of organizing the recruitment of disaffected American soldiers. Specifically, Green admitted recruiting Hickey for a payment of 2 shillings (Forbes also gave the soldier half a dollar...