Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
...crowd of 11,000, the Optimists made out very well. Cadaverous, imperious Winston Guest scored the first goal. He and Major Smith had a scramble for the ball a few minutes later; Smith won, and tied the score. After that the Optimists began to have things their own way. Mike Phipps, their chunky, excitable forward, took two passes from Guest, one for an easy goal, one for a hard one that he nearly missed. The Army men, playing well above their rating (nine goals below the Optimists), found themselves most of the time in close quarters near their own posts...
...claimed to have murdered his father, and the way of release from reality for the men, who depend heavily on periodic benders, Synge also shows the deep, unconscious yearning for the rare and the unknown in their earthy world. In the end the play becomes almost tragic as "Pegeen Mike," the shrewish heroine, realizes that she has lost her erstwhile wooer, "the only playboy of the western world...
...indictment of Impostor Harry F.("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson for perjury and illegal entry into the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 2, 9, 23) : a sentence of 90 days in jail and three years on probation; in Manhattan Federal Court...
These sensations were described by the only man who has experienced them, Sir Malcolm ("Mike") Campbell, just after he made 253.9 m.p.h. the world's automobile speed record, at Daytona Beach last year. They are sensations which, combined with the anticipation of an immediate and violent death, might seem unpleasant. Sir Malcolm Campbell minded them little enough to go again last month to Daytona Beach, with bigger Rolls-Royce engines than ever in his Blue Bird, to see how much faster he could go. Last week, after long waiting for wind and tides to make the beach sufficiently smooth...