Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encouraged by the success of Jack Dempsey's Manhattan restaurant (TIME, Dec. 24), Georges Carpentier, onetime light heavyweight champion of the world, opened a bar near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
From his new restaurant, in which the current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross...
...made Ambers open up in an effort to effect a knockout. It nearly cost him the fight when Fuller's right landed on the point of his jaw and a hard left opened a cut on his eye. When the bell rang, Fuller was backing away again. Referee Dempsey and two judges gave Ambers the decision...
...Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
...That's one Jack Dempsey showed me," said Max as he ducked one of Tom Choate, Crimson heavyweight's, fast ones while Coach Henry Lamar looked on in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon...