Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, leaving a reception given him at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, had his arm caught in the open door of a passing automobile, received a bloody wound. "It won't bother me. It's nothing at all," said he. But friends took him to have the wound sewed...
...both public and Catholic schools because he has a bass voice, smokes, has to shave, is as strong as a grown man. He can lift persons bulking 250 lb., 200-lb. dumbbells, can push without strain a lawn roller, or an automobile filled with passengers. Prime stunt: lifting Jack Dempsey when Dempsey scaled 202 lb. Born normal, Clarence Jr. continued so until 9 mos. old. Between 9 mos. and 3½ years he grew ten years physically in all things except height. When 4½ he was physically...
...York. Defeated for renomination in the Lockport (40th) district by Wet Walter G. Andrews was dry Republican Representative Stephen Wallace Dempsey whose 15 years house service had raised him to chairman of the Rivers & Harbors Committee. Both parties nominated Wets for the 25th district (Westchester) seat voluntarily vacated by Dry Republican Representative Jonathan Mayhew Wainright...
...York, Dry Congressman Dempsey was defeated by a Wet in the 40th District. Two Wets were nominated in the 25th District when Dry Representative Wainwright retired. Representative Fish shifted to beer while Representative Hancock (35th District) and Cooke (41st District) changed from Dry to Wet to save their political skins in the primary. Gain...
...attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously this chance at artistic expression and holds...