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Word: leongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh two On Leong laundrymen crumpled up dead on the sidewalk with blood bubbling from wet bullet holes. The assassin faded smoothly back into the blue, gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laundrymen 's War | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Newark a Hip Sing yellow-man made the error of invading a Chinese quarter settled almost entirely by On Leong Tongmen. There were 26 bullets in his body when the police found it, like a blood-stained yellow tabloid, in the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laundrymen 's War | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Moy Back Hin, 70, millionaire tong ruler of Portland, Ore.; by Leong Ho. Moy claims that Leong Ho is his housekeeper, that Ng Shee is his wife. Pearl, one of the children, claims that she has never known any other mother than Leong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago Joe Mong, an On Leong, was found beaten unconscious in a gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

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