Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
Currently at the University, "The Toast of New York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
Captain Richard G. Powell '38 heads the returning Varsity players. Coach Jack Carr expects defensive strength with the combination of H. Putnam Williams '39, Powell, Theodore P. Robie '38, and Joseph C. Bradley '39, all lettermen, in goal and at fullback...
Died. Henry Kimball Hadley, 66, famed U. S. composer, conductor; in Manhattan. Dr. Hadley was the son of a musician, at the age of 17 had composed an operetta, Happy Jack, which is still performed in U. S. schools arid colleges. During his career as a composer he wrote four operas, four symphonies, innumerable songs, cantatas, tone poems. Able, though rarely inspired, Composer Hadley was a leading spirit in San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club, titled his most popular Overture In Bohemia...
Fortnight ago, the small-time circus of onetime cinema Cowboy Jack Hoxie. played Independence, Mo. Among the menagerie was a 57-year-old female performing elephant named Mena, ballyhooed as the "Largest Female Pachyderm in Captivity." Cowboy Hoxie decided that Mena, her trainer, and his pinto pony were costing too much money. He gave Trainer Cooper $10 and proceeded on his way. The $10 bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought...