Word: abe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sportdom listened with suspicion to Lynch's tale. Burman scurried to the Boxing Commission, "weighed in" properly, was declared world's bantamweight champion. Promoter Tex Rickard went scouting in Harlem for a substitute for Lynch, returned to Madison Square Garden with a spindly Jew named Abe Goldstein...
Putting his slender arms into rapid motion, Abe Goldstein dizzied and dazzled Joe Burman during eight of twelve rounds, was declared winner and champion, went to bed with kindly feelings toward Joe Lynch...
Potash and Perlmutter. Abe and Mawruss-in anything that might be called the silent drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash...
...going, at least it will tell where they came from. It will be the best possible hand book for all mothers with marriageable children. It will be a useful guide to merchants in granting credit-for obviously there should be a difference in the amounts which descendants of Abe Lincoln and of Jesse James should be allowed to charge. First Families of America should lend a new significance to Arbor Day, and with some useful slogan, like "Plant Another Family Tree," should inspire many ambitious young men with the first principles of conservation...
...Millet took the measure of Milton Krook on a time decision. P. R. Crowley being the only candidate for the 125-pound group was given a place on the team without a trial match. C. V. B. Cushman beat J. O. Tragard, T. B. Malmud won from Abe Ehre, and in the finals of this series threw Cushman, thus gaining the 135-pound title. In the 158-pound class E. G. Lowry beat D. W. Evans, while E. H. Bates won the 175-pound award by default. T. W. Heag, the other candidate, being forced by injuries to for felt...