Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...
Said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University: "I call it the 20th-century World War." Said onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "That's a tough one. Let me think a minute. How about Fight to Live?" Letters poured into the White House carrying monosyllabic, polysyllabic, clever, solemn, simple, erudite, zippy and non-zippy words...
Both the low and high board fancy dives should fall to Yale's Jim Cook, twice winner of the Easterns and second in the Nationals last year. Cook's strongest opponents will be Harvard's Shaw McCutcheon, Ohio State's Frank Dempsey, and Occidental's Summy Lee, a native of China who took a close third to Cook last season
...Jack Dempsey said good-by to two male guests at a party in the Dempsey apartment in Manhattan. The guests preferred to stay. Later, ambulance attendants treated one for a possible jaw fracture and black eye, the other for a scalp wound and a split lip. "I just slapped 'em around a bit," the ex-champ protested. No charges were brought...
...National League pennant but beat the mighty Yankees in the World Series of 1926. Three months later, Owner Sam Breadon sold his miracle-manager to the New York Giants. Reason: a salary dispute that prompted Breadon to say he would rather go into the ring with Jack Dempsey than argue with Rogers Hornsby...