Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried polite letters of congratulation from the country's celebrities, Publisher Block gave a theatre party. He bought out the house for a performance of George White's "Scandals," and asked his friends to help celebrate. Among the guests were Polar Pilgrim Byrd, Aviatrix Earhart, Mauler Dempsey. Both the purchase and the party were typical of Publisher Block...
...poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...
...quit because he was afraid of going stark, staring mad. This school had faith in the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. These potent papers quoted Tunney as he expanded on an incident which occurred while he was training for his second fight with Jack Dempsey...
There were three significant men at the fight: Jack Dempsey, 33, who climbed into the ring before the fight, waved a straw hat, shook several hands, evoked the loudest cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom...
...often does, to Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa...