Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, 41; and Mrs. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 25, onetime musicomedienne: a second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 9 oz. Name: Barbara Judith...
Died. Dave Barry, 47, the referee whose notorious long-count helped Gene Tunney successfully defend his championship against Jack Dempsey in 1927, and who was convicted in 1934 of swindling Chicago's Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank of $54,000 (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); after long illness; in Chicago...
...Jack Dempsey is not applying the "hot foot" with his cigar-he is igniting it! As the recipient of many a "hot foot" in all parts of the country, I can give you an expert's description of how it is applied: A book-match is stuck between the upper and sole of the shoe. It is usually placed in the instep on outer side of the shoe. Naturally, the sulphur end extends...
...better times, these men and women will be only too eager to get out and work for his election. Baseball, tennis, racing, boxing and all other sports are again drawing record crowds and Roosevelt is the answer." Thus last week did onetime fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, who thinks it is funny to burn unsuspecting friends through their shoes with a lighted cigar (see cut),* justify his appointment by Boss James A. Farley as New York State head of the Sports Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand the end of Jock's prosperity...