Word: chicagoan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
...Chicagoan vaporings assert that " the British syndicate, which comprises a dozen big banks and shipping companies, proposes to reconstruct the railroads in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and possibly also Italy and Germany, and eventually Russia, in one vast private undertaking...
...labored, though some of its upholstery is not ineffective. Hilda Spong, Juliette Day and Fred Tiden, in particular, do their best with it-but they cannot succeed in galvanizing the body more than momentarily. The French accents employed by the cast vary from the Swiss to the purely Chicagoan. The critics in general have received it tepidly- what praise they have accorded being rather for the work of individual actors than for the piece itself...