Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daugherty,' pronouncing it Doherty... "I will let you look at me walking on the boardwalk, but I don't expect I will have anything to say about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders...
...meeting last night of the men who shot against Yale, Brendon Dempsey Leahey '26 of Lowell, was elected captain of the University rifle team for next year. Leahey was one of the best marksmen on last year's Freshman team and one of thee highest scorers in league matches this year for the University riflemen...
...Coach Dempsey has been forced to keep the Freshman squad in the cage all week because the University team has been usurping the Freshman Field. However, if Ground-Keeper Dennis Enwright's predictions come true, the Second Team field will be in good condition Monday and the 1927 players are hoping to begin their outside work then. Coach Dempsey has four more days of practice before his first game than the University team but even at that he will find it no easy task to sort out the best possible combination before that date...
When Dr. Straton was offered the opportunity to attend the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and write his impression for a news agency which guaranteed not to cut his article, and to give it circulation in over 600 daily newspapers, he saw an opportunity to preach a sermon. His report of that encounter was widely read, and provoked national comment, for among the charges he brought against the exhibition were that it was founded on fraud and dishonesty, and that it was similar to the gladitorial fights which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome...
...head of the film company which photographed the Dempsey-Carpentier fight testified that he had paid between $60,000 and $65,000 to three men for alleged protection in taking the fight films out of New Jersey. The three men, he declared, were "Jap" Muma, who represented himself as a friend of the Attorney General, William E. Orr, represented to be a friend of Jesse Smith, and Ike Martin, proprietor of a Cincinnati amusement park...