Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Buckshot Putting aside his bone-handled .45 one day last week, Sheriff Tom Will ("Buckshot") Lane of Wharton County, Tex. reached for a typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale...
While people were still moving out of the Stadium Saturday, somebody wrote on the blackboard in the squad's dressing room last year's Princeton score, followed by "Here's where we repay our lumps."JOHNNY WEST is hoisted off his feet by JIM DEFFLEY, as Co-Captain TOM KELLEHER comes up for insurance...
Curley also gained national prominence for going to jail twice in his political career. The first jail sentence was, in a sense, his springboard to fame. In 1904, when he was in the State Legislature, Curley, and an unrelated Tom Curley took civil service exams for two constituents. It was common practice in those days for a ward boss to take such an exam in lieu of one of his following who couldn't read of write. But a clerk recognized the two Curleys and forthwith, the two were judged guilty in a spectacular trial and sent to serve...
...Purple's defensive standouts are Co-Captain Tom Kelleher, a two-way end and a regular for three years, and Bill DeChard, who backs up the line. Kelleher is still nursing a knee injury; DeChard saw little action last year because of a shoulder bruise, but shone as a freshman two years...
...first half. The Elephants drove deep into Kirkland territory in the first period and went over on a pass from quarterback Charlie Cabot to Major Close. The Deacons evened the count early in the second quarter when they marched to the Eliot five yard line, and fullback Tom Lamb pushed the ball across...