Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JANICE PECK PATTERSON...
Hetty Green well deserved her reputation as "The Witch of Wall Street." A genius at stock speculation and a hard-hearted moneybags, she was ever ready to foreclose on a church mortgage or haggle over the price of a peck of potatoes. She lived in grubby solitude in a $12-a-week boarding house in Hoboken. When she died in 1913, she left a $100 million fortune-and a daughter trained in most respects to carry...
...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
...McThing tells of a rich woman (Helen Hayes) whose efforts to turn her young son (Brandon de Wilde) into Little Lord Fauntleroy have made him even more of a Peck's Bad Boy. With the help of a witch named Mrs. McThing, the son has been whisked to a dive operated by mobsters, and a perfect little gentleman has been substituted at home. Just when the mother finds out how much worse a too-good boy can be than a bad one, she finds out that the good boy is really not hers. She tracks hers down...
PROVIDENCE, Feb, 7--Better Passing, faster skating, and rougher hockey gave Brown's varsity exited an easy 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson tonight in the Rhode Island Arena. Coach Cooney Welland's men never seemed to be able to control the peck consistently, while the Bruins kept the pressure on throughout most of the game. The Crimson freshmen made up in some way for the defeat, handily beating the Bruta Clubs, 6 to 2, in the preliminary contest...