Word: pete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily earnings by teaching every evening in the "Merry Grotto," an East Side dance-hall which provides partners for unattached men, under the guise of giving them "dancing lessons." According to the author, she is "innocent" in spite of the fact that she is the mistress of both Pete Ravanni, the proprietor, and Max Lisenco, his assistant. But she is discontent with this lot and decides to throw them both over. The very evening she does this, "Crazy Man" appears...
...pedalling 2,519 miles and 8 laps in six days, Percy Lawrence of San Francisco and Ernest Kockler, Chicago milk man, won a Six-Day Bike Race at Madison Square Garden. They were one lap ahead of the field. Reggie McNamara and Pete Van Kempen were second by virtue of 1,174 points gained in daily sprints throughout the week. Maurice Brocco, tiny Franco-Italian rider, twice had victory in his grasp in the closing hour of the struggle only to have his giant partner from Holland, Peter Moeskops, ease up and lose the winning...
...their often dangerous practice of making misstatements and starting rumors which affect stock prices, was shown by the recent retraction by W. C. Moore of his charges that Edward L. Doheny was lying about his company, the Mexican Petroleum Company. Back in 1921, when the price of "Mex Pete" was fluctuating widely on rumors regarding the oil situation in Mexico, Moore, in his "market letters," insinuated that the Company was unsound and being misrepresented by its officers...
...Pete Herman, former bantanweight champion, who went totally blind as a result of a blow received in an exhibition bout for charity, has regained the sight of one eye. Herman had been under treatment for a year and in bed for three months with his eyes bandaged. Said he, when the gauze rolls were removed: "Thank God, I can see! I will never fight again, but I'll be a manager...
...date of the publication of Hudibras or the strict interpretation of the categorical imperative are not likely to increase the sales of Mex Pete, or fire insurance policies. And the mythical average graduate probably has no more definite idea of such details than his stenographer, if he has one. As numerous others have remarked previously, college is not for learning facts but for learning how to think and how to judge values and make decisions. It is the pale ghost of that training which prompts the glowing epistles from "State Street" and the promising offers at the Employment Office...