Word: possum
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...inside the building was contempt of court. Two years ago on grounds of extreme illness he excused himself from returning from Miami to Chicago to be examined by a grand jury investigating bootleggers' incomes. Last week the Federal Government was prepared to show that Capone had been playing 'possum, could well have answered the summons to Chicago...
...White House with many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased him. He was tickled. He laughed." ¶President Hoover dotted his last "i's," crossed in his last "t's" in speeches he will deliver this week at Cleveland, Boston. Kings Mountain, N. C. Republican candidates throughout the land hoped hard that...
...seen a handsome, black-mustached gentleman attired in flowered pyjamas. Although her life has been more melodramatic than that of any other U. S. woman religionist, Sister Aimee could remember but one other period quite so exciting as last week, when she was reported variously as dying, blind, playing 'possum...
...athletes at Westminster College in Missouri are writing their impressions of the games in which they participate in order to store up information for guidance in future contests. James E. ("Possum") Pixlee, the Westminster director of athletics, is the originator of the idea and has thus far found it successful...
...feel more inclined, however, to sympathize with the "man who dropped the punt" and "Riegels who ran the wrong way". These poor fellows had the bad luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...