Word: dave
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...printer by trade, a preacher by nature, a puritan by training. While he read the Bible, went to prayer meeting, wrote tracts, shut his eyes to facts, the family printing shop drifted toward the rocks. It was saved only by the dogged efforts of his eldest son Dave. Little Carlotta, the youngest, saw her father's hand laid restrainingly on one after another of her brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered, for a Welland. Then...
...Wilkins Apr. 5 Locust Grove, Ga. Beaten to death 3. Dave Harris Apr. 23 Gunnison, Miss. Shot...
...course of his monkeyshines, during which he pauses occasionally to juggle, dance, sing, play & tumble, versatile Mr. Cook introduces several hundred startling prop laughs. Always genial and ingratiating, he does everything from lighting Dave Chasen's mustache to making a hole-in-one with a small coal shovel...
...love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector's apartment house; "Lucky Sam" Lipschitz, Dave the Slapper, gangsters...
...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...