Holy Joe

Example Sentences

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Such frivolities would no doubt have stirred the lightnings in Arthur's father, terrible-tempered "Holy Joe" Rank.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jimmy" Walker had to pay 5¾% for money, "Holy Joe McKee got it for 5¼%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Credited with some part in kicking "Holy Joe," Tammany stumbling block, upstairs into a $50,000 job was Tammany's foxy little Boss John Francis Curry.

From Time Magazine Archive

I found Newman in the port foc'sle, talking to Holy Joe.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman