Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...
...University have acquired a large following who favor repeal of this obnoxious legislation. The concerted action which swept sixty-one oath supporters out of the Massachusetts legislature is simply a local counterpart of the nationwide defeat of the Hearst type of noise maker. Harvard may give herself a pat on the back for having helped to combat this branch of American demagoguery...
...Brooks Cavin, Jr. '37, wrestling captain, and the new coach Pat Orr Johnson '33, reported on the floor early. John C. Harkness '38, 175-lb winner against Yale last year, showed up during the afternoon...
...sympathies of "Britain's Fairy Godmother" have been aroused by the sorry case of handsome Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South Atlantic, the Orsbornes & crew were apprehended at Georgetown, British Guiana...
Fortnight ago, to show that she considers the whole thing a "rather sporting effort'' and a rattling good maritime joke, salty Lady Houston bought the Girl Pat for $16,500, said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler...