Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When middle-aged Jean Dee Jarnette was released last April, his first act was to take out duplicate seaman's papers under the names of Jack Morgan and Wes S. Glenn. As Jack Morgan he shortly turned up in New Orleans, married a pretty 17-year-old laborer's daughter named Lillian Casanova, took her back to California where the pair led a hand-to-mouth existence working as bellhop and chambermaid in hotels...
...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
...Ulen to look at his stopwatch with a glum expression on his face, and then scan the pool balcony for possible Yale scouts. Dick Tregaskis is working hard daily, and Freshman Coach Peterson and Ulen are trying to persuade a little more speed out of him. Harry Southwick and Jack Kennedy are up from last year's Freshmen, and at present it's hard to say how far they...
...Munroe shares top honors in breast-stroke with Berizzi and his regular, long-coasting stroke will make him hard to keep up with in the 200. Phil Walker has been fast in practice and in the Alumni meet in which he took a third, while Jack Waldron, who has just learnt the butterfly this year, is expected to show some speed...
...Carolan takes over the role of "Captain" Jack Boyle, the tawdry "paycock," and superbly prevents the depravity of his role from becoming lost in its amusing elements. The latter are dangerously prominent, since the first act of the tragedy is pure comedy. Eileen Crowe is superb for the role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride...