Word: z
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
Hotel Haywire (Paramount): a rollicking mêlée precipitated when Spring Byington finds a pair of women's silk panties in Lynne Overman's pocket-prolonged by Astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) supplying both with detectives recruited from vaudevillle...
...game: CRIMSON LAMPOON C. Storey, lf rf, A. Zwoncus J. Reidy, rf cf, B. Zwoncus C. Foote, ss lf, C. Zwoncus C. Weinberger, p c, U. Dope J. Field, lb 1b, A. Dope J. Allen, c 2b, D. Zwoncus J. Tyson, 2b 3b, E. Zwoncus J. McCutcheon, 3b ss, Z. Zwoncus, Jr. H. F. Huey, OcC, cf p, E. Ibis...
...heavy cold incurred in last night's practice game, may not be able to start. In that case Benchley, who has never been able to get to first base, may take over the position. Another last-minute substitution that Jester, coach of Lampy, has in mind, is replacing Z. Zwoncus, Jr., son of Z. Zwoncus, Sr., former catching great for the funnymen, with Bobby Bunker at short. Bunker, who makes a hit anywhere, is anxiously awaiting his chance, it is said...
...times of stress when the crosshairs of several telescopes are broken at Oak Ridge Observatory, the staff may be compelled to cease work and hunt spiders, according to George Z. Dimitroff, assistant in Astronomy. For the webbing of spiders is used as cross-hairs...