Word: tappers
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...came to the courtyard only to say "no," possibly influenced by a recent fiurry of anti-society essays in college publications. One junior sent a Skull and Bones tapper away with a crisp negative. He accepted the congratulations of two friends, telling them: "That was the toughest one to turn down...
...cavalrymen. On its way to bolster up crumbling R.O.K. forces in northwest Korea, the division's 8th Regiment dug in for the night near Unsan, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. When morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting in a machine-gun emplacement, heard the bugles, too-"very faint like...
...interrupt, don't beg, don't be breezy, don't talk too much, don't mumble, don't giggle, don't argue." Furthermore, warned the booklet, "don't be a finger fidgeter, a hand washer, a clothing adjuster, a tapper, twister, nose puller, whisker feeler, or an Adam's apple adjuster...
...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
This week Bill O'Dwyer and the rest of the pros handed the case over to the grand jury. Tapper Ryan, who surrendered after 48 hours, was indicted. Rich Man Ryan was questioned by the grand jury. Nobody had actually accused the chubby amateur of anything. They had just roughed him up some. New York City will elect a mayor this November and Tammany, it appeared, was bent on wising up simon-pures like Clen Ryan...