Word: pete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth with a countenance like a mask bitten out of sandstone by the wind. Uncle de Palma was a trifle worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter of 104 mi. an hour, was passed by Racer Cooper, took the lead again after Cooper had turned his $10,000 machine into a smear of debris...
...California properties of "Pan Pete" were not included in the deal; these had previously been segregated from the parent company and will be sold out to its present stockholders as the Pan American Western Petroleum Corporation...
Control of the remaining "Pan Pete" properties have been taken over by the Pan American Eastern Petroleum Corporation, on whose board are three representatives of the bankers, three of Standard Oil of Indiana and one of the British interests...
Moons sank, suns rose. After six days, the winners: Reggie McNamara, Australian "iron man," and Pete Van Kempen, of Holland; 2,368 mi., 5 laps, 1,057 points for sprinting. Second place: Bobby Walthour Jr., of Georgia, and Franco Georgetti, of Italy. Third: Marcel Buysse and Alphonse Goosens, of Belgium...
...Married Pete Robinson ("Living Skeleton"), aged 45, weight 58 lb., to Bunny Smith, ("Fat Lady"), aged 23, weight 467 lb.; in Manhattan...