Word: leggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat plunking his mandolin in front of a music rack in his home. While a pot of spaghetti was bubbling in the kitchen, some unknown persons called. When they rose to go they filled Joe Roma with so many .38 and .45 slugs that the police could not count the holes...
...sudden death of 'Legger Roma was first thought to be connected with the kidnapping, week before, of rich young Charles Boettcher II (TIME, Feb. 20). 'Legger Roma had just called on Chief of Police Albert T. Clark, presumably to discuss the Boettcher case. Meanwhile Boettcher's father, satisfied by notes that his son was alive & well, promised to pay $60,000 ransom...
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Suspicion points to Burch and his 'legger boss, Joe Christmas, who have been living in a cabin on her place. Here Faulkner drops the gravid mother, goes back & back to Joe Christmas' beginnings. Because he was a bastard with Negro blood in him. little Joe had a hard time from the start. His mad grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they...
...cried Founder Buchman. "That's the way we're meeting unexpected friends here tonight." Then the meeting grew chummy, with much talk of "sharing" (mutual confession), "surrender" (conversion) and spiritual fellowship. There were preachers, athletes, college professors, brokers, an elderly gentleman described as a retired 'legger. socialites from Manhattan, Louisville, Holland, South Africa, England-all pleasant, engaging folk, none of them shabby or pasty or odd-looking...