Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruby Bates, the other girl in the gondola car, was not there to corroborate Victoria Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told...
...Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk. When he was private secretary to the Warden of Iowa's State Prison, and editing the prison magazine, one of the convicts reproved him for writing a sentimental story about a crook. Williamson took heed...
...manager, running away in the fighter's car, gets burned to death in an accident; his charred corpse is mistaken for the fighter's. This gives the fighter a chance to change his name from Jimmy Dolan to Jack Daugherty. He wanders out West as a hobo until he comes to a happy little farm where a girl named Peggy (Loretta Young) and her old Scotch aunt (Aline MacMahon) are caring for a group of crippled orphans...
...straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...Americans than crack players from obscure teams, like Stapleton's Quarterback Bob Campiglio, from West Liberty Teachers, and the Giants' end, Ray Flaherty, from Gonzaga. Some professionals are discovered by scouts. Others, like the Giants' Fullback Mulleneaux, who arrived from Arizona as a hobo, ask for employment. Professional players who have been famed in college get salaries much higher than the average of $125 per game, during their first season. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski, now fullback for the Chicago Bears, gets about $300. Cagle gets $500. Red Grange, who made a poor start in professional football...