Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they can go on adding to until they are tired of such a ninnyhammer's trick. My list: John Thomas Scopes John J. Pershing John Pierpont Morgan John- Dempsey John Barrymore John H. Clarke John D. Rockefeller Sr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. John Hays Hammond John W. Davis J. John Davis John Barton Payne John L. Lewis J. John Walker And many, many another. . . . JOHN LISPIN LESSIG...
...error. Fisticuffer Dempsey is no "John" but "William Harrison...
...married in June. Most of her trousseau was ready. Her fiancé, Edward Sullivan, sports editor of the Macfadden New York Evening Graphic, was sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by her parents. She had been sick for 92 days. She, who had many times looked up from thrashing waters and laughed at the sun, grew pale, saw no sun. Sybil Bauer had ceased to live; her family, her fiance, sports lovers, bowed their heads...
Yesterday's contest was the first scheduled game that the Freshmen have been able to play. Unfavorable weather conditions made play on the outdoor rinks impossible. The first year men were playing their initial contest under the direction of Coach C. I. Peirson '25, successor to J. H. Dempsey '23, who established the unparalleled record of turning out three undefeated teams...
...half of the net gate receipts over $1,000,000 against any opponent Mr. Rickard picks out. To find the opponent there will be an elimination tournament involving Jack Sharkey, Jim Maloney, Jack Delaney, Paul Berlenbach and Michael Paolino. The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ring), and the winner of this challenge round will fight Tunney. Jack Delaney, flashy lightheavy-weight, popular choice for Tunney's next opponent, will have to go through the tournament whether he likes it or not, said Mr. Rickard...