Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Madden might still have been a stumblebum had he not won 200 "clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information...
ROME--German Junkers transport planes tonight were reported to be ferrying Italian troops reinforcements across the Adriatic to the Albanian battlefronts and it was said that Nazi "Stuka" dive bombers might have participated in attacks against the Greeks...
...went to George Scott once again in a neat 24.1 clocking, with Don Barker of the Alumni getting a second and Lonnie Stowell of the Varsity a third. Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson got a second and third in the dive behind Rusty Greenhood, (McCutcheon won on a recount Sunday), and the stage was set for the best race of the night. Frannie Powers and Lonnie Stowell finished one-two in a 54.6 century ahead of Scott and Cutler. The Alumni quartet of Barker, Fallon, Scott, and Hutter took the relay in 1:38.2 by a body-length...
Brilliant Rusty Greenhood is sure to give up-and-coming Sophomore Shaw McCutcheon a run for his money in the dive if he does not beat him. Brad Patterson, another promising second-year man, will also be competing in that event...
...prosperous members of the financial colony were among the gloomiest. One, curt, stubby, red-mustached Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas (single interviews $100 an hour), who has been accused of starting several bear raids, periodically flabbergasts Wall Street by distressing ads titled "Fool's Paradise," "Pandemonium Ahead," "Nose Dive," etc. The other: William J. ("Billy") Baxter, economist-investment consultant, who in 1936 predicted a revolt in Britain, now expects the English to quit or fold up within a few weeks, carry Wall Street with them...