Word: patelis
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...owned. More Government cattle were shipped to fresh pastures, others turned over to packers for slaughter. A train of Pullman cars was shunted into the yards to house strikebreakers. And 400 scabs, mostly boys from droughty farms eager to earn an honest penny at the risk of a broken pate, watered and fed the cattle, drove them under sheds and viaducts that offered some protection from the blazing sun. In a few days the yards were more than half empty. Thereafter Chicago's stock yard strike settled down into an ordinary labor struggle...
...Harried from nation to nation and everywhere unwelcome, Trebitsch-Lincoln looked eastward upon Buddhism, saw that it was good. He entered a monastery near Peiping, took the name Chao Kung, had his hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor...
Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan...
...opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago...
...Hollywood, the wife of oldtime Film Actor Bryant Washburn, exasperated because he had brought a friend, one J. Demiteis, home with him early in the morning, picked up a French telephone, banged it down on the pate of J. Demiteis. Summoned by frightened neighbors, police found her screaming: "I've just killed a man!", found J. Demiteis alive but dizzy...