Word: sockers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, 48, author-turned-lawyer, who styles himself in Who's Who as an "outstanding penologist and criminologist," announced in Paris he will run for the Senate next year as an anti-New Dealer against Florida's Senator Charles Oscar Andrews...
...Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
Attending a session of the West Palm Beach Criminal Court fortnight ago in his capacity as deputy sheriff and amateur criminologist, muscular Author Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe (G-Man, Knockout) saw 14-year-old Anthony Anastor brought up to be sentenced for stealing a sailboat, persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. "I played fair with you, didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing...