Word: wynkoop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynkoop, U. S. business man, later declared: "Thank God we got away alive. . . . The only mercy shown was to foreigners. ... I doubt if anybody will ever know the number of dead and wounded. . . . The bandits had with them an expert engineer, who ran the train to Yurecuare. . . . There they wrecked the station, looted the town, burned and wrecked every coach on the train, and heartlessly stood by while wounded passengers in the third-class carriages were actually cremated alive...
...PENCILED FROWN?James Gray?Scribner's ($2.00)?It was penciled on the self-conscious countenance of Timothy Wynkoop, hardly weaned from college and already dramatic critic of The Indian City (Ia.) Leader. It was meant to convey the wearer's enormous intelligence, his artistic nature, his critical acumen. It often appeared when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best...