Word: shelton
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...volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There was no throwing of plates or potato salad?probably because Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman . . . was not along. But in the late afternoon, while reporters grouped on the Forty-ninth Street side of the hostelry, a bucket of water was tossed from...
...Kettzle and S. E. Myers were the losing affirmative team from section 14 while C. N. Com stock. H. T. Wenner, and M. V. Anastos presented the negative side. Professor Bilss Perry. J. T. Murphy '30 and P. H. DeWllde '27 were the judges with P. M. Shelton '30 as chairman...
...petty criminal, Moneymaker Mayes kept four gangs of bootleggers and counterfeiters busy putting $800,000 of his currency into circulation. Prominent among his outlets were the Birger and Shelton gangs whose activities (TIME, Feb. 21) have heightened the ill-fame of Williamson and Herrin counties, Illinois. Birgers and Sheltons, feuding cutthroats, machine-gunners, hijackers, in their liquor deals, used to dupe each other and be duped by Mr. Mayes's money...
...wars, each party has its victories to boast, its defeats to alibi. The Shelton adherents slapped thighs, exchanged felicitations over the destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger...
Less than a month later, Birger more than evened the score. For it was his evidence that convicted the Sheltons of the Collinsville robbery. Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...