Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper reporters that Garrett was 'bagman' for certain higher-ups who finally got rid of him because they were not satisfied with their percentage of the split." Patrolman Garrett refused to patrol, asked a vacation, got it. Returning, he asked retirement with a pension; he said his skull had been cracked on duty. He was retired, pensioned. Writer Liggett suggested the skullcracking might have occurred at a racetrack accident when Garrett was driving a horse that belonged to a bootlegger friend...
...year-old white woman, was held in the Oconee County jail at Walhalla. At midnight a masked mob of several hundred men and boys broke into the jail. Sheriff John Thomas tried to fight them off, to protect his prisoner. He was bashed over the head, had his skull fractured. The lynchers whisked Green three miles out of town by motor, tied him to a tree, tore his body to shreds with bullets...
...late Pope Pius X; in Rome. In spite of their poverty, she and her late sister adopted two war orphans, performed many an act of kindness for the city's poor. For burying her sister, she gave agnostic Prime Minister Mussolini her holy brother's skull cap. Later she received a small annuity from the Vatican...
...wishes to get away from college for the weekend. Former boy scouts find an opportunity in working with scout troops in passing tests. Dramatics and music offer a constant demand for experts, and good coaches in basketball, wrestling, fencing, boxing and even men to give skull practice in football and baseball are sought...
...Skull", Professor Hooton, Semitic Museum...