Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After beating a Miss Clem Purvis-Russell-Montgomery, onetime Scots champion, 7 & 6 in the 36 hole final, Miss Wilson said that her father, a Derbyshire doctor, had promised her another trip to the U. S. to play for the women's championship in September. Last year, Helen Hicks beat her in the semifinal...
Frank Taberski, onetime world pocket billiard champion, nicknamed "Iron Man" for his coolness in match play, found his Schenectady billiard parlor on fire, fainted...
...Larry Gains, colored heavyweight of Canada, who once defeated Champion Max Schmeling: a ten-round bout against huge Primo Camera, who outweighed him 268 Ib. to 200; before 71,000 spectators, in London...
Presidential elections, threat of war, champion contests in major athletics, any widespread cause of public excitement produces a falling off in the number of suicides...
...that "the terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business ethics," has been on the lookout for more ethical business heroes ever since...