Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short of half the 1,236,456 votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
...gong clanged and the boys in the fourth bout bobbed out of their corners. Probably nobody there was reminded of George Bellows' prizefight pictures except one of the boys, Tony Sisti from Buffalo. Tony, who had been out of the ring nearly nine years, was staging a comeback. Its purpose, which tickled the sportswriters: to finance his own art exhibition this week at Manhattan's Argent Galleries...
...public only for an occasional smouldering outburst on the state of affairs in his native Poland. He had not touched the piano for four years. Rumors spread that the great Paderewski had forgotten how to play. But in 1922, his red-gold hair now silver, Paderewski staged a comeback, proved that he was still the only living virtuoso who could gross half a million dollars on a U. S. concert tour...
...literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...
...Feslermen are still seeking their second league victory and the Tigers will be anything but a soft touch tonight. Cappy Cappon has an aroused Orange and Black squad which cannot be kept at the very threshold of the comeback trail indefinitely. Despite the addition of Bob James to the starting lineup and improved all-round play, the Crimson must rate as slight underdogs to the Bengals...