Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Williamson ("Oh Henry!") Candy Co. Brooklyn...
...Last spring at Amherst, Son John indulged in a boxing bout with a Brooklyn, student,, was defeated. (TIME, March...
Stupid Reducers. At the meeting of the American Dietetic Association in Atlantic City, Supervisor Emma F. Holloway of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, declared: "A tiny snack for luncheon, another snack for dinner is proving disastrous to the modern girl, who is so afraid of being overweight. . . . Men, too, are at fault with their customary coffee and pie for luncheon. They are reducing their vitality and making themselves liable to colds and pneumonia...
...eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between the two saying...
Married. Edwin Dooley, of Brooklyn, Dartmouth College quarterback; to Harriette Marie Feeley. The bridegroom is of All-American calibre at football; writes poetry...