Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riddled with Slugs. Ma had her lover riddled with slugs and dumped into Webster Lake, Minn., because she thought he had tipped off the cops to one of their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
...travel to Princeton's artificial Lake Carnegie for the Wright Cup Regatta against Yale and Princeton...
...week after the Wright Cup race the Crimson heads into the championship Eastern Association of Rewing Colleges Regatta, also scheduled for Lake Carnegle. In this race every lightweight crew in the country will be on hand. This means the Crimson will have to beat Columbia, Cornell, Penn, MIT, Yale--as well as Princeton--If it is to regain the Goldwaithe Cup that traditionally signifies 150-pound crew supremacy...
...news of Gold Rush Album is that such superb pictorial records of the migration were kept. Editor Jackson's collection begins with pastoral glimpses of California, includes the early accounts of the discovery of gold, and scenes along the various routes-the Lassen Road, the Salt Lake-Los Angeles road, the southwestern route through Santa Fe, Tucson and Fort Yuma, the route across the Isthmus, the voyages around the Cape. It includes as well such unexpected items as eleven pages of the work of two Cuban artists, Augusto Ferran and Jose Baturone, whose quaintly bearded, drunken and belligerent miners...
...cooperate and Munro led his band forth into the March gales to practice on the Busy School soccer field, bounded on the side by a sacred bit of yet-undried turf--the main part of the field--and on the other by a late spring artificial lake...