Word: spee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third prize of a standard radio-phonograph went to the Spee Club. Spee-men finished up the eight-week Philip Morris grind with a final spurt of 200 wrappers with game predictions to capture their $180 award...
Responsibility for the recent Spee bearnapping still remains nebulous even as the missing mammal reappeared last night locked in the showcase of a fashionable haberdashery across the street from the club...
Speemen, horrified at the discovery of their three foot, black mascot in public, clad only in a bow tie, were pushing the probe. One prominent clubman was heard to remark, "A Spee bear would never be seen without his old school tie and oxford cloth button down." We are grateful, however, for the stuffing and repair job done on the beast during his misadventure. In the great Spee tradition the bear will return to the clubhouse in much better condition than when he left...
Help wanted signs were hung out yesterday by local lawmen as the case of the disappearing Spee bear moved into its fifth day with no clues at all yet available...
...animal, a common Black Bear or Euarctus Americans, formerly inhabited the Spee clubhouse, where he had stood for many years as a combination bar and hatrack in the front hall. He was last seen there late Friday night, highball...