Word: mallets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
Climaxing a season which has seen neither ties nor defeats for the poloists, the Freshman riders face Yale's mallet-men tonight on the Eli's home grounds at New Haven. Tonight's contest will be the final game of the year...
...this combination, with the exception of Gerry, whose illness will prevent his playing, which hopes to down Yale this evening in the Commonwealth Armory. The mallet men, Peter Jay substituting for Gerry, will face a Yale team which has won five of its seven games this season. The Blue riders, Bill Rand, Jr., and last year's Freshman stars, Peter and Bayard Dominick have beaten P.M.C. and lost to West Point by close scores, but they have not played as much as has the Harvard combine, and this lack of experience may spell defeat for the visitors...
...child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful. Thereafter manipulation may cause secondary injuries which the orthopedist may well avoid by discreet use of knife, chisel and mallet...
...Murphy & Co.'s President Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Wartime lieutenant colonel, snorted: "A fantasy! . . . and I don't believe there is a word of truth in it with respect to Mr. McGuire...