Word: tracey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rafael, Cal., Deputy Sheriffs Tracey and McGinnis spied a pair of lifeless legs dangling from the tonneau of a speeding car. They drew guns, pursued; overtook it. McGinnis covered the driver, Tracey flashed his badge...
...victim?" snarled Tracey. "That ain't a victim, that's a tailor's dummy," said the startled driver...
...Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play's the Thing), E. G. Robinson (Brothers Karamazov, Juarez and Maximilian...
...Boston, one B. Tracey Ansell, elongated (6 ft. 6 in.), willowy (165 lb.), youthful (19 years), Harvard senior, aroused curiosity, interest, alarm, dismay, by roosting his exaggerated frame upon a stool in a lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected...
...organization desired to make a test of the right of peaceful assemblage in Paterson in the face of Chief Tracey's arbitrary and unlawful stand in locking the silk workers out of their hall. The indictment was unwarranted and farfetched, resting as it did upon an ancient statute of 1796, under which no trial had been held in all the 128 years it has been on the books. We are paying a high price for our victory, but free speech still comes high in the United States...