Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs...
...that can run five years, is in my mind-maybe it's highbrow and impractical to look at it that way, but the way I see it, she's comparable to any business magnate, and besides they say she's made as much money as Jack Dempsey...
...know yet boys, maybe in London." . . . "But if you put it on in London how will you pay the British tax and still have profit enough to satisfy your stockholders?" ... "I don't know yet, boys." . . . "What about George Godfrey?" . . . "Well, but Heeney ..." ... "What about Dempsey?" . . . "He's through...
...Jack Dempsey drew $9,320,944 when he was heavyweight champion, said a statistician last week...
Score Optimists: 1-2, Harvard 6 Goals Almy 4. Dempsey 3, Guest 2. Clark 2. Burnett Fouls Optimists Harvard 6, Time Six 3 minute chukkers. Referee J. Walsh...