Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field, L. I., shortly after taking off with fouled and overheated motors. The ship burned itself and two houses. Vexed, Designer Fokker declared that pilot...
...Steubenville, Ohio, one W. T. Fryan lost his nose in an auto accident. Searchers found it in the wreckage, a doctor grafted it back on with 70 stitches, and Fryan breathed naturally an hour later...
...looked like a goat . . . had ears like a jackass, a back like a sawbuck, no shine on the hair. The head was bent and, to top it all, the pup was cross-eyed...
...19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy cousin, is mildly lionized by literary society, has a succés d'estime with his first novel. His wife dies. Author and reader leave him desolate, planning to return once again to his native Middle West...