Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single period of 24 hours was celebrated by Italians, last week, as War Declaration? Day, Colonial Day, and the Fourth Centenary of the birth of Duke Emanuele Filberto of Savoy, doughty progenitor of bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele...
...Bantamweight (118) Bud Taylor (N. B. A. Candidate. His right to the title is variously disputed...
This year's tusslers were Ormel Hinkley Simpson, who rose from Lieutenant-Governor to fill the big chair when Governor Henry J. Fuqua died in 1926; Huey P. Long, a talkative, curly-headed bantamweight on the Public Service Commission; and U. S. Representative Riley Joseph Wilson, who tried to gain fame as a Mississippi flood controller...
Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...
...truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...