Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steve Morgan Max Baer Belle Mercer Myrna Loy Willie Ryan Otto Kruger The Professor Walter Huston Primo Carnera Primo Carnera Jack Dempsey Jack Dempsey...
...filling pictures with those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked eye; nevertheless, they are in the picture. Strangely enough...
...Just as improbable was Dempsey's behavior as referee at a heavyweight wrestling bout last week in Alexandria, La. When one of the combatants, Marshall Blackstock, would not quit choking and slugging his opponent, Referee Dempsey stopped him with a right jab that laid open his face...
...Some Laffoon colonels: Tom Mix, Jack Dempsey, Louis McHenry Howe, Graham McNamee, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Morton Downey, Bebe Daniels...
...best rumpus over referees' decisions since the Dempsey-Tunney mix-up was given football fans last week when the officials in two major games bungled up matters rather successfully. The facts of the cases have been already hammered into the heads of newspaper readers, but for the benefit of all let them be again repeated. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, refereeing the Brown-Yale tilt, allowed Clare Curtin, Eli tackle, to run with the ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line...