Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
...Ajax Rubber Co. and McLaren Rubber...
...child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...
...Furthermore, Mr. Slocum has contributed, in a journal of literary merit, an acute and forceful analysis of an important educational question. This Ajax must not be left in the middle of the road to defy steam-rollers. He is too nice and too generous-hearted for road material...
Please allow me to correct an untrue statement in the April 30 issue of TIME which read, "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings." This you quoted as having been said by James Joseph Tunney; he did utter a similar statement while lecturing at Yale, but it happened to have been Jack Sharkey, not Dempsey, that Tunney said was given to extended mouthings and similar to Ajax...