Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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world champion heavyweight boxer: "My engagement was rumored to a lady whose name appears in the Social Register. Said I: 'I don't even know a girl I could take to the theatre, let alone one I could marry...
...Root became busier than the one-handed piccolo player. He despatched 70,000 troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code of statutes for the Islands; he acted for the U. S. in the internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought) had the biggest role in the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; he reorganized the Army, creating a general staff and chief of staff; he smoothed out the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain...
...eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded brilliantly the First Division, never admitting that it could be "held up by machine gun fire" or "shot to pieces," so long...
...profession, that he liked to dance, that he read Voltaire, that he neither smoked, spat, nor swore. One newspaper declared that he was "a young philosopher." All his partisans said he was too nice. . . . Few of his opponents have thought so. Tunney hits hard; he is a sound boxer, does not lose his head in the ring, can stand up under punishment. When he fights, his face sometimes gets puckered up. It never gets nasty. The Champion William Harrison Dempsey-what he eats, wears, says, earns, fears, hopes for, and remembers-has supplied the news-mills with endless grist ever...
...will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer, boxer, fencer, cricketer, he knew Jack London in the South Seas, Theodore Roosevelt in Africa...