Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then the sun stopped shining down in Rhode Island when the mightiest of the mighty dropped a set-up breather to Tufts. None of the Crimson strategists have yet been able to decipher the 3 to 1 victory the Jumbos perpetrated; but whatever the explanation, to news set the local Varsity back on its phsychological feet once again. Brown is no longer an unbeatable terror but a squad of ordinary mortals capable of having an off day with the worst of them...
...YORK--Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, 37, who rose to the vice-presidency in Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., through hard work and viciousness, bungled an attempt to escape police guards today and plunged from the sixth story of a Coney Island Hotel to a death as sudden as any he had inflicted on his known 11 victims...
...glimpse of the President's map of the crisis. History would show how accurate that map was. It might be that what he thought was that the mainland of peace was only a small island. It might be that what he hoped was that the Northwest Passage to the future was only an arm of the Hudson. But last week it was plain that the U. S. was sailing according to his chart, plainer still that his confidence in it was unshaken...
...Southern peewees will find tough competition in 14-year-old Francis Cravath Gibbs of Long Island. Young Gibbs owns 16-year-old Little Squire, the fabulous grey-white pony (half Welsh pony, half Irish thoroughbred) that has humbled America's best jumpers ever since he came to the U.S. with an Irish Army team in 1932. Once, at the Dublin Horse Show, Little Squire jumped...
...Capone was served with papers in a $119,367 suit against him for unpaid taxes on illegal beer vintages of the '20s. To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good...