Word: piqua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record by lifting $2,500 from the bank in Brady's home town, Goodland...
...Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
...Piqua, Ohio, knew about the Mills boys when they were ragamuffins drumming up trade for their father's barbershop. They had no money to buy instruments so they learned to ape them. The family moved to Bellefontaine, 30 miles away. John, the oldest, got a job in a greenhouse. Harry, the fattest, became a bootblack. Herbert, the slickest, turned hod-carrier. Young Don, 17 now, was lazy...