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Word: dempsey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey's few defensive weaknesses is his habit of dropping his guard when near girls named Estelle. The succession began with his second wife, Actress Estelle Taylor, continued last year when

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Dempsey, a youthful 59, briefly wooed a wealthy widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

After outplaying the Eagles for one and a half periods and building up a one-goal lead, the varsity sextet failed to take the initiative in the final stanza until B.C. wing Dick Dempsey had scored the winning tally with a hard backhand shot...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Crimson Sextet Overtaken in Last Period, Dropping Hard-Fought Contest to BC, 4-3 | 12/11/1954 | See Source »

...told 600 Hoosier Republican leaders that he had noticed a letdown in G.O.P. spirits since the 1952 landslide. He was reminded of Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Remember Firpo | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...National Association for the Preservation of the White Race, organized last July, is headed by Augusta, Ga. Store Owner Jack Dempsey, a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K. The N.A.P.W.R.'s credo: "Negro blood destroyed the civilization of Egypt, India, Phoenicia, Carthage. Greece and Rome." Now Russia wants to destroy the U.S. by prodding "us to accept 16 million Negroes as social equals . . . Every American who by word or deed helps Russia further this plan of race destruction is a traitor to kind and country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Day of the Demagogues | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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