Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Randolph Hearst has the reputation of paying higher salaries to his writers than any other newspaper proprietor in the country. Lately he added another to his galaxy of facile pens, which includes Arthur Brisbane, James J. Corbett, George W. Hinman, Gene Sarazen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George, Damon Runyon, Prudence Penny, B. C. Forbes, James Oppenheim, Myron T. Herrick. The latest artist of the pen to join this group is Mrs. Clara Phillips, " hammer slayer...
Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
...Jack Dempsey, whom Spalla forthwith challenged: " I will fight any of them, but just now I have about all the fighting I can attend to. If I clean up on this side of the water I will be walling to take on the European fighter...
...cauliflower ear, characteristic flora of the prize ring, is withering away. Careful inspection of the three champions now training to defend their titles within the month- Jack Dempsey against Tom Gibbons, Johnny Kilbane against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern...
...William Burke, Mrs. George W. Chandler, Mrs. Amory Chapin, Mrs. Philip P. Chase, Mrs. Frank S. Churchill, Mrs. William H. Claflin, Jr., Mrs. Georgiana C. Clark, Mrs. Joseph S. Clark, Mrs. Bernard H. Cogan, Mrs. Charles K. Cummings, Mrs. Harry P. Davis, Mrs. Max E. Dejonge, Mrs. George C. Dempsey, Mrs. Russell Duane, Mrs. George E. Dunscombe, Mrs. Robert T. Fisher, Mrs. Redington Fiske, Mrs. Frederick A. Flather, Mrs. Wyman K. Flint, Mrs. John R. Fordyce, Mrs. Henry H., Fuller, Mrs. Chester N. Greenough, Mrs. John F. Harris, Mrs. Oliver K. Hawes, Mrs. Richard Kennedy, Mrs. George E. Kunhardt...