Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas has more big-time chicken men than any other state, headed by ex-Boxer Bobby Manziel, who struck it rich wildcatting for oil on $700 borrowed from his friend, Jack Dempsey. Manziel has a special plane to carry his chickens to & from fights. Not counting bets, the sport costs Manziel about $25,000 a year...
...weeks ago "Miss Hush," an unnamed but "famous American unmarried lady," murmured into a microphone these Orphic clues to her identity. Millions of Americans, feverishly jotting them on cuffs, newspapers and old paper bags, remembered that the winners of Truth or Consequences' contests on Mr. Hush (Jack Dempsey) and Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) had won $13,500 and $17,590 respectively. Soon the Hush money had fact-finding listeners in block-long queues at the Los Angeles Public Library; in Manhattan's Times Square, tipsters hawked greensheets (the not-so-hot tip: Evangeline Booth) at $1. But nobody...
Perhaps casting a sidelong doubt toward next year's schedule, Sproul went on to suggest that "you ought to find opponents in your own class. I wouldn't take on Jack Dempsey; it wouldn't be fun for anybody. Get games with institutions ethically and athletically on your own level. Play the game on your own standards, not the sportswriter...
Manners at the Post. In 1919, when the "golden era" in sport was beginning, it was Man o' War who led the parade. Like Ty Cobb and Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against...
...Color. Leo Durocher, the holler guy, has added very little to baseball's respectability. But at a time when sport was empty of color-and the splashes of color made by Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Walter Hagen had faded-he was as refreshing to the bleachers as a bottle of beer on an August afternoon...