Word: slavers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
Singles: McGovern (H) defeated Duncan (U.S.) 6-1, 6-0; Brady (H) defeated Kulik (U.S.) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Camarda (U.S.) defeated Wightman (H) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2; Swartzman (H) defeated Munn (U.S.) 6-2, 6-3; Slaver (U.S.) defeated Muldoon (H) 6-2, 6-1; Gresham (H) defeated Fuller (U.S.) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mayleas (H) defeated Bell (U.S.) 6-4, 6-8, 6-3, and Johnson (U.S.) defeated Melvin...
...Doctor fought, or rather butchered, at Cape Saint Vincent, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Rochefort and many another action, most of which he was moved to describe in the course of telling about his leg. He sailed for prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude for him after he removed...