Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearborn '32, of Sandwich; T. E. Farrell '31, 1L, of Oswege, New York; V. H. Harding, Jr. '31, Lionel de Jersey Fellow, of Hubbard Woods, Illinois; R. S. Harris '29, 1G.Ed., of Springfield; J. G. Haviland '29, 1L, of Glens Falls, New York; B. W. Hislop '31, 1L, of Troy, New York; Alan Holske '27, Instructor in German...
Soon after dark one night last week a jury filed into a court room at Troy, N. Y., and announced that it found John Thomas ("Legs") Diamond not guilty on a kidnapping charge. Nobody was surprised. Arrested 27 times on charges ranging from homicide to "suspicious character," the shifty-eyed, pasty-faced, bony racketeer had been convicted only thrice in his 36 years. Again free, "Legs" kissed his wife, drove across the Hudson to Albany to get drunk...
...lovely, flaccid Helen of Troy could be profitably refurbished by giving her pert ideas of her own in a modern novel, what is to hinder a ribby old cow from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack...
Died. Herbert Savage Ide, 61, president of George P. Ide & Co. (collars) since 1928; at Troy...
...near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury...