Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck...
...products; 4) bring happiness to millions depending on mining. To many miners full of moonshine, discharging their revolvers in the streets of Leadville, to many others dancing with girls atop the bars of Tonopah, happiness had already been brought. There were only a few grumblers, men who had stuck to the old Bryan ideal of silver at 16-to-1. At that day's gold price ($34.06) the ratio became...
...Author has already made a small but solid place for himself among U. S. writers. Yaleman (1919) who escaped the "Yale literary renaissance" but not the War, he joined the U. S. literary colony in Paris after the Armistice, stuck it out for five years. In Paris he knew "everybody," contributed to such magazines as Broom, transition, Gargoyle, wrote a Dada novel, The Eater of Darkness. Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people...
...pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that single lap and 1.354 points for sprints, to the runner-up's 714 points. Peden & Letourner collected $5,000 of the $30,000 purse. Peden sped on to Cleveland to begin another grind three...
...Sunday broadcast Father Coughlin stuck by his Smith story, denounced the "Morgan interests," excoriated the "Tory Press," declared the U. S. must choose between "Roosevelt or Ruin." Speaking later of Monsignor Belford's apology he boasted: "John Raskob will be next and Al Smith after...