Word: lam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
GOLD COMES IN BRICKS-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Alta Ashbury wrote $10,000 checks to "Cash." Ultimately her rich papa got Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to look into a matter of blackmail seasoned with murder. Donald, a little, disbarred lawyer whom women adore, even outsmarts Hashita, his jujitsu teacher...
...scared stiff. It was night and the police were after him. So was his gang. For almost seven months he had been on the lam, sleeping in flophouses, always moving. He had no tie. His hat & coat were gone. When he came to a church he went inside. It was dark there, too. He was still scared, too scared. In the empty, still church he began to scream...