Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today he has his onetime partner at a disadvantage, for Davis Wilson is a hot campaigner. Husky, red-faced, hoarse-voiced, he flails with his arms, thinks nothing of making six speeches a day, once fainted from exhaustion during a radio address. He, too, campaigns for a 5¢ fare, throws...
The political Twins Hadley and Wilson hoped to force Boss Vare to nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces...
Boston-born, Davis Wilson at 20 went to Vermont as an assistant to the attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U...
It began when the New York Herald Tribune ran a two-column story to the effect that Frankie Parker had decided not to return to school. Instead, he would spend a winter in Bermuda, where Mercer Beasley teaches tennis. Said Frankie Parker: "You know what my forehand shot is or...
Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the...