Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
...college authorities probably think that boxing is associated with prize fighting and a low class of people. They don't realize that boxing makes good men out of a lot of disreputables. Take Jack Dempsey for example. He was once a hobo on a freight train, but look at him now. He's well off, moves in decent company, wears a dinner coat four or five times a week and likes it. That is what boxing did for him, just as it has done for Tunney, Sharkey, and countless other capable young fellows...
...speakeasy for a bottle of ale, smoked many cigarets. Impressed by the speed with which he had manipulated his enormous bulk and by the correctness of his boxing, critics predicted that if he keeps in shape and is properly schooled he will be as good a drawing-card as Dempsey at his best...
...popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...