Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hidalgoans do not smile in the sun. They swear audibly, extensively and persistently and R. B. Creager and the Texas Tammany boys (A. Y. Baker et al) are the subject of their most virulent profanity...
...were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton et al...
...attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice...
...brothers: Otto, Gus, Henry, Charlie, Alf T., Al and John. Only John is now living...
...Tunney chapter says: ". . . Boxing up to this time [circa World War] had a most dreadful inheritance in the way of reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government, in 1917 . . . adopted it [boxing] as an important means for quickly fitting untrained men for rigorous soldier-life. . . . The modern boxer realizes that unless he is mentally equipped his chances for success are very slim...