Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero's End. George White Rogers first got into the headlines in 1934 when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that...
Dudley: Julius L. Shack '39; Lawrence Alexander '40 and Harold Glickman...
...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
This time the hero is a cautious, bearded, monosyllabic Australian artist named Bradly Mudgett-a hardworking, penniless, single-minded solitary whose great aspiration is to be allowed to work in peace. Because it is cheap, Mudgett rents a shack on a deserted beach, hoards his little store of paint and canvas, worries more about his money running out than he does about his painting. As Lindsay admirers could have guessed, the beach soon fills up with odd characters: a runaway bank clerk who sponges off Mudgett; a gin-drinking old harridan who spies on him; a tawny-haired, brown-legged...
...secretaries, all Juniors, are: Adams, Thomas P. Watkins; Dudley, Julius L. Shack; Dunster, Donald McDonald; Eliot, Peter Waring; Kirkland, Paul R. Wentworth; Leverett, John A. Rumsey; Lowell, Hughes Call; Winthrop, William C. Flinn...