Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What to Do? Inhabitants of the U. S. have not been slow to outline Captain Lindbergh's future for him. James Joseph Tunney, fighter, suggests that he make a fortune in cinema or vaudeville, while the making is good. Following this course, Captain Lindbergh could easily put away a nest egg of $1,000,000 within a year. Will Rogers, funnyman and newspaper philosopher, suggests that the U. S. Government give him a life pension and a high position in the aviation service. Others believe that he should glorify the U. S. by new exploits, flights to Australia...
That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
...getting a slight edge over his opponent, has Flynn reeling groggily for a minute receiving stunning blows on the head Flynn guarded himself well, however, and pulled through the round. In the third round Flynn came back, only to be again battered by Johnson's swinging blows. The University fighter's extra weight and his superior battling ability gave him a slight edge and when both men had staggered to their corners the judges gave Johnson the decision...
Thirty thousand people crowded about the race track at Tia Juana, Mexico-famed drinking, gambling spot for southern Californians and visitors-to witness the rich Coffroth handicap. Among the spectators were noted fighter Jack Dempsey; his wife, movie-actress Estelle Taylor; a host of lesser celebrities, foretelling spring fashions from Paris...
...lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...