Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always seemed to me that a picture taken of a fighter at the end of a fight is more newsworthy than a posed photo showing him sleeked, shaved, unmarked and I never could understand how Jack Dempsey, with his penchant for collecting black eyes in matched pairs always managed to put off the "boys with the cameras" until the shiners had disappeared. . . . L. BERGAN...
Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...
...other words, by my information, what Mr. Blackton has to say is not correct. Why give a beautiful city and State the proverbial black...
...unit soon after the first gleam of gold appeared in the Klondike rapids of the Yukon River, Yukon is at present administered by a federal government Comptroller and a Territorial Council of three. Yukon's sole representative in the Dominion Parliament since October. 1935 has been Mrs. George Black, a dashing woman who left Chicago to join the gold rush of 1898. She exploded angrily last week when Premier Pattullo announced his acquisition, expressed "surprise" that no statement had been made "either in Parliament or by the Prime Minister...
Beyond anthropology the connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...