Word: quincella
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When, two days later, Peacock beat Owens again in a 100-metre invitation race at Crystal Beach, Ont., track experts found another alibi for Owens' defeat in the possibility that he was preoccupied. Fortnight ago he was reported engaged to one Quincella Nickerson of Los Angeles. Last week, the night before his second defeat by Peacock, Owens hurried to a preacher, married a Cleveland beauty-parlor maid named Minnie Ruth Solomon, entrained for Buffalo alone after promising to bring her a ring when he returned. His explanation of the Nickerson episode: "We were at a party and Miss Nickerson asked...
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