Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
...Jake is Home. Mulling over Denton's strange disappearance, detectives had the house searched again. Finally they found a neatly plastered crypt under the basement stairs. In it was Jake Denton's body, shot in the back...
Married. Technical Sergeant Jake Lindsey, 24, just decorated by President Truman as the 100th World War II infantryman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Beverly Hargreaves, 19, of Lexington, Mass., a blonde blind-date whom he met four years ago before shipping overseas; in Lucedale, Miss...
...championship bout drew 10,247 customers. Four nights later, Welterweight Walker ("Sugar Ray Robinson") Smith (148½ lbs.) proved that punches speak louder than titles. A crowd of 18,060 jam-packed Madison Square Garden to see chocolate-colored Sugar Ray knock the block off game Middleweight Jake La Motta...
Unlike some admirals, he had never gone to Pensacola in middle age to take a course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...