Word: nicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed...
...Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold Cup. Baby Gar IVs average speed for the 150 miles was 42.06 m.p.h. Rainbow, owned by S. B. Eagan of Buffalo, plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded a protest that Wood's boat had an airplane engine. This year Wood's secret of success was carrying fuel enough for non-stop heats...
...stadium track this afternoon they will have an old fend to settle between them. And although Bohannon is slated too win, track enthusiasts are ensured of a race which will be equal of any intercollegiate dash in the country when the two rivals meet. The time is expected to nick 40 seconds. Subordinate parts in this quarter mile drama will be played by Talbot of Virginia and Kane of Harvard, both of whom ran in the mile relay at Philadelphia last week...
...thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster saint of a woman; her occasional distress arouses little sympathy, and her mishaps, due largely to a complete lack...
Also wearing the Lollipop uniform to advantage are Gus Shy (comedian plumber); Nick Long, Jr. (altitudinously acrobatic juvenile; Florence Webber (French maid with a Hoboken background); and The Dark Secret. The last is a Negro baby endowed with all the irresistible, if inarticulate, naivete of the pea-coal pickaninny...