Word: urchin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Hogan, onetime Brooklyn urchin, now Washington's smartest, cockiest criminal attorney, had secured Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected: The $100,000 cash was a friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused...
...Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding at Old Saybrook, Conn. He did not mention in court his illustrious relationship. Fine: $1. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, pugilist, driving his new Lancia racer at a terrific pace through Thuringia, steered to avoid an urchin, crashed into a building, climbed out of the wreck with minor flesh cuts...
...child of the rich may enter the school. But many a half pagan urchin, wont to roam wildly in the Georgia hills, has been received. There are 7,000 names on the alumni list of the Berry Schools...
...trifling landscapes for the office safes of nature-loving Cincinnati businessmen, young Outcault walked into the office of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He had some cartoons of life in a place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
Sixteen years ago, when he was three, Harry Braun arrived from Russia. A melancholy urchin, he lounged in Manhattan ghettoes, not playing with the tougher ragamuffins but crooning to himself. By the time that he was eleven, it was plain to Mrs. Braun that he would be the world's greatest musician. She bought him a $10 fiddle and said, "Play...