Word: nightsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philip decides this environment is too much for him. But on the day he intends to clear out for Oregon he gets involved in an eviction, lands in the hospital with a fractured skull. In the next long weeks he concludes that "what hit him was more than a nightstick," writes a sensational article on his host's factory. He has what he calls a "mentalpause," and finally joins up for the duration of the Class...
...Manhattan last week, 230-lb. Tony Galento-also known as Two-Ton Tony, the Jersey Nightstick, the TNT Kid, the One-Man Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a man"-achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit...
...attention. Martin Sullivan, a 70-year-old Duquesne policeman who rouged his cheeks, penciled his eyebrows, dyed his hair and capped a bald spot with a toupee held on by a string under his chin, always liked to have little girls accompany him on his beat, carrying his nightstick. Four years ago he married one of them, aged 15. She lately deserted him. Last week in Duquesne he was taken to court on a charge of having raped another girl, aged 12. On the way back to jail he asked Constable Thomas Gallagher if he might leave...
...arrested next night for tossing liquor bottles, dishes, a suitcase and a typewriter out of the apartment window. Subdued with a nightstick, the gibbering Representative, shoeless and stripped to the waist, was carted to jail, spent two hours there before his secretary appeared with $25 bail...
That night the eight Theta Chis who had been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...