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Word: pittmann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble member?Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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