Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...
...sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge at the controversial Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago...
Died. Thomas Carroll, 78, oldtime fight trainer and athlete; after a brief illness; in Oakland. Calif. Among those he trained: James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, James J. Jeffries, the late Bob Fitzsimmons...
...that there is a fine poetry in the clattering bigness of industrial activity which rivals the tranquility of classicism. Several of the photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected by an underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof...
...Within a few hours Mr. Gibson and Sir John were hot & bothered. They had to explain that of course they had not tried to exclude from the Conference the four Delegates who are female, Dr. Mary E. Woolley of the U. S., Miss M. Winifred Kydd of Canada, Mrs. Corbett Ashby of Britain and Mile Anne Szelagowska of Poland...