Word: pete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Negro, one Pete Chester, had killed Policeman P. P, Jones of Houston last year. Chester was sentenced to death, but got a retrial this spring before District Judge C. T. Harper, who had himself just been acquitted of killing a man in a roadside row. Judge Harper's lawyer argued Chester's case before Judge Harper and the Negro got off with a sentence of four years. Because of the lightness of this sentence, the Houston police force was restive after Detective Davis' death...
...with her husband and two terriers. When she knocked, no one answered, no small dog ran barking and sniffing to the threshold. When she forced an entrance, she found Aaron Lutkin dead, asphyxiated by the gas which he had purposely turned on. Beside him lay the terriers, Jennie and Pete, dead also...
...mosquitoes where the Coolidges are vacationing because it's above the 3,500-foot elevation (TIME, June 20, p. 5, last col.). There's a big grizzly mounted and some pictures in the Smithsonian Institution that prove it. The pictures show where the bear was killed by Pete Peterson, Cascade mountains, elevation, 7,000. The pictures also show on the grizzly, not 15 minutes dead, FLIES-LOTS OF 'EM. Farther east you go, the worse the flies are. As for mosquitoes, they are one of the joy-killers in mountain climbing. They will be found right...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
Married. Julian ("Pete") Street Jr., son of famed Author Julian Street; to Narcissa Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank (N. Y.); in Manhattan...