Word: pal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hudkins-Walker. Ace Hudkins, pal of Charles Lindbergh, bouquet-lover, and broken nosed punch-drinker who fights flail-fisted, lunged after middleweight champion Mickey Walker in a wet ring in Chicago. Rain on the canvas was stained with the blood that flowed from the lips and noses of both men. Walker won two rounds, Hudkins five, the rest were even. When the referee, with finger pointing at Walker, yelled "The winner, and still champion. . . ." the crowd jumped up and booed for 15 minutes...
...Gloria Swanson-from sex appeal to genuine histrionics (including sex appeal). In this picture, she is a lady gangster who has not forgotten that the forces of the law "burned" her father in the electric chair. After a bank robbery and a narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife as any man could wish. But her husband grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand...
Police Chief Gerk of Baltimore protested that such figures "mean nothing." He said: "A couple of weeks ago we arrested a man who admitted committing 100 burglaries. His pal admitted 50. Two warrants were issued against each. Therefore, on the record, it would appear that 98 burglaries were unsolved in the case of the first man and 48 in the case of the second...
...this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances distress the stupid husband; his "pal" gives him this advice: "Your wife's friend is not flirting with you, she is kidding you. Pretend to be taken in and see how far she will go. In the meantime, I will make moves toward your wife." As might be expected, misunderstandings arise. Animated only by the mutations...
Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...