Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Godfrey-Paolino. For a long time George Godfrey, 240-pound black man has been giving people the impression that he could knock out Dempsey and Tunney the same night if he would only try. For a long time George Godfrey has demanded what he thinks he deserves-a match with Tunney. Only a few sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that...
...couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause. "And who" asked critics "will fight Tunney, now that Heeney has eliminated Delaney and failed to advance himself?" Answered some: "Bring back that old man, Dempsey...
HARVARD OPTIMISTS Burnett, No. 1 No. 1, Almy White, No. 2 No. 2, Guest Clark, back back, Dempsey...
...Octopus. There were two detectives, Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly. They could not refuse a wisp of a girl who asked them to investigate a certain Long Island lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping...
There was some doubt whether the authors (Gallaher & Welch) of Sh! The Octopus were trying to be funny or spooky. But they were both. And the audience went shhh-before every act. Clifford Dempsey and Harry Kelly, playing under their own names, were simply splitting...