Word: riley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing gear. Ahead was the valley of the Kanawha River where the old but still snappy Boeing would have plenty of room to gain some altitude. But also ahead was a high tension line and Russell Wright knew he could not clear it. He eased...
Last week, as it does with most mugs, the law had caught up with one of the tough taipans of the Shanghai underworld. On his way to the U.S. and a Federal penitentiary was Edward Thomas Riley, otherwise known as "Jackpot Riley" and "Slot Machine Riley," who had ridden high for a decade, for four years had been the Mr. Big of Shanghai gambling...
...Eldredge, who has 41 windows to fill, paraded his dummies before backdrops of Manhattan landmarks and the Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller (shoes) and Jaeckel (furs), got Cellophane Easter bunnies into the windows of both. At Bergdorf-Goodman's, Designers Robert Riley and Mab Wilson used as backgrounds crowd scenes painted by famed Lithographer and Water Colorist Adolf Dehn. Saks-Fifth Avenue's Sidney Ring, with the help of a free-lance designer named Helen Watkins, found a new use for spaghetti. Designers Ring and Watkins got a huge assortment...
...victory in the mile relay was easily the day's thriller. Larry Corbett kept neck-and-neck with his opponent Riley, and in the second lap Ted Graves loped ahead by a large margin. McCarthy overtook Harvard's Lyons, and Dowd widened the lead over Crimson anchor man Tom Watkins...
...RILEY P. MARTIN...