Word: steve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against it, Marry accepted from the friendly Jew a dull clerical job at the County building. What with one thing and another, he figured that Abe Wise was sobriquet for Gun-Man Steve Gold-Steve Gold of newspaper extras, Steve Gold, spectacular murderer, hounded by rival bootleg gangs. But just as he, Marry, a small town dreamer and poet, was about to be of considerable service to this curious fascinating character, Steve Gold was shot down from a passing sedan. Simultaneously Marry lost his County Cook...
Died. Stephen Adamczyn ("Steve Adams"), 24, Chicago lightweight boxer; in a bout with Champion Sammy Mandell; in Kansas City...
...sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy) or her congregation raised $500,000 ransom. . . . (Later version...
Time became a jumbled cinema- weird faces, threats, and curses . . . long drives by night in the sedan. She was always bound and gagged. Her captors burned her fingers with cigars to make her help them get the ransom. If she did not . . . Steve and his fellow rogue murmured apart, spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere...
...negotiate the distance in better than 17 seconds, his performance in 1889 being 16 4-5 seconds. L. H. Williams of Yale in 1891 was the first college athlete to do better than 16 seconds in the Intercollegiate Meet, doing that year 15 4-5 seconds. In 1895 Steve Chase of Dartmouth did 15 4-5 and later...