Word: petee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared up and stopped just across the street at the post office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who later kidnapped Baird H. Markham Jr., Yale junior (son of a New York oil executive), held him for a day and kept...
...Verden, Okla., 587 strong, had expected Pete's arrival ever since Saturday when a bill collector called on Nell and she brought a big roll of bills out of her purse. About half the town was in the street when Pete and his fellow-convict, Frank Tindol, arrived, but they all retired gracefully feeling that Pete and his wife would rather be alone...
Soon Nell came down with bags and her two dogs, Sweetpea and June. Then every-one knew she was planning to leave for good. The car roared off and stopped at Mars Turner's filling station at the edge of town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner...
...Died. Pete Knight, winner in the last twelve years of more rodeo titles and prize money than any other bronco rider in the world; of internal injuries after being tossed from "Slowdown" at the Hayward, Calif. Rodeo...
...weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase...