Word: chicagoan
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...record for the 400-metre run stood at 48⅓ secs. When Liddell, spindly Scotch parson, snapped the tape in the final, it was 47 3/3 secs. Before Liddell settled the matter the record had been broken twice in heats, by Imbach, an unsung Swiss, by Fitch, a fast Chicagoan...
...next objective was to persuade editors to try the innovation. The daring one was Julian S. Mason, Managing Editor of The New York Tribune. Mr. Mason is a Chicagoan by birth and breeding. His first taste of journalism came at a famed educational institution in New Haven, Conn., where he became Chairman of the Yale Daily News. Strangely enough, during the last three years of Mr. Mason's stay in New Haven, Dr. Traprock was also present incognito, as one George S. Chappell...
...Lynch, champion bantamweight boxer of the world, had agreed to risk his title against Joe Burman, Chicagoan. The day before the fight, Lynch reported himself disabled. Asked how that happened, he stated that in stepping from a taxi his feet had become entangled with his pet collie, he had lost his equilibrium, collapsed upon the sidewalk, arisen with a subglenoid dislocation of the shoulder...
Sport writers heralded a " dramatic" finale, but Chicagoan and Atlantan were alike erratic when the day came. They went in to lunch with Miss Stirling...
Squaring off for match play, Hunter deftly eliminated Evans. Jones (open titleholder), Cochran of Wichita Falls, Herron, Fownes, Ouimet, von Elm, Gardner did not falter. Sweetser swamped Seckel, a Chicagoan. Philadelphians were pleased because Marston advanced by scotching Simpson of Indianapolis...