Word: nicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Manter Hall School was founded by W. W. Nolen '84, who while in college showed his ability as a tutor. Soon after his graduation he gathered a number of men around him and started his schol which took on the nick-name of "The Widow...
Compared with the three hits for which the seconds were able to nick Molloy and Owens the ten clouts garnered from the combined offerings of Clifford and Colpack gave the winners a larger batting margin than the close score would indicate...
Next day they went to see one Nick Ableman, a businessman. Mr. Ableman took one of their chunks of rock to be assayed.* After a while he told them what that particular kind of rock was worth- about $39 per pound, or $78,176 per ton. Tonopah, Nev., began to seethe with rumors...
...school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering in the nick of time that Edward of Wales was witkin, they postponed their raid until he had departed...
...shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos. The crisis passes, as laughter, blood of the play, flows freely again. In the last scene, the amateur gigolo appears in time to prevent Ann from running off with his professional colleague. After all, had not these...