Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
...crudness that the show proves a succession of highly amusing situations productive of constant laughter. Teddy Hart, Jean Casto, Hume Cronyn and Betty Field stand out in a cast which is admirably fitted, physically and vocally for the strenuous activities of "Three Men on a Horse." It's the McCoy...
...gets the real McCoy? Opinions garnered in a hasty canvass late last night showed considerable variety as the Puritan authorities claimed to have a claim on Carmody for the evening and several Dunstermen seemed to think a Jekyll-Hyde act probable. The twin brother hypothesis was quelled by Jimmie himself, who finally let it be known he was going to spend the evening at the Puritan frolic...
Recommended for a valor medal in Michigan was Corporal Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"),* tricky oldtime middle-weight prizefighter and barroom brawler. Two years ago fisticuffer McCoy finished a nine-year term in San Quentin Prison for drunkenly killing a sweetheart. Last August, when a boat capsized in a lake near Ann Arbor, he raced to the rescue in a motorboat. Grey, paunchy and 61, Kid McCoy fished five children from the water, dived deep for their parents until his nose spurted blood from the pressure...
...According to Columnist 0. 0. Mclntyre, a drunk once refused to believe that the person with whom he was scuffling was Fisticuffer McCoy. Knocked to the floor, he looked up, said, "It's the real McCoy." Hence, the phrase...