Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine ape: " A despatch from Buenos Aires stated that I arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, ' in a sulky mood.' Met by a cheering crowd, I fled hastily in my automobile, refused to raise my hat. Later, when I failed to appear at an athletic meeting, the citizens interpreted this as another slight. They marched the streets crying: 'Death to Firpo...
Died. James O'Neill, Jr., actor, 43, son of the late James O'Neill (actor, hero of The Count of Monte Cristo), brother of Eugene O'Neill, playwright (The Emperor Jones, The Straw, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape), at a Trenton, N. J., hospital...
United States. Vertebrate fossils and bones of great significance were the product of the Albert Thompson expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in the Snake Creek fossil quarries of western Nebraska: 1) A tooth of a native ape, the only one known in the New World. 2) Skull and jaws of a gigantic camel, much larger than the modern Bactrian. It is attributed to the Pliocene period (about 1,500,000 years ago). 3) Skull and bones of three-toed horses, fossils of a dwarf rhinoceros, a giant pig, and the moropus or clawed ungulate, all belonging...
Firpo, Argentine ape and heavyweight boxer, has the hardest punching knuckles in the business. The inside of his hand, too, is unique. The palm itches more severely than any other fighter's. At present Firpo is making dollars knocking down " set-ups." Last week he disposed of Joe Burke, of Detroit, in two rounds at Grand Rapids. He fights Charlie Weinert in Philadelphia, Aug. 13. Meanwhile he is on an exhibition tour...
...Firpo ("Argentine Ape") knocked out Jess Willard (" Huge Anachronism of the Ring") in eight rounds in Jersey City...