Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...
...tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved last week through the four galleries of the U. S. building, gravely inspected one room full of the tenuous, romantic nudes of the late great Arthur B. Davies, stood silent in front of George Wesley Bellows' famed Dempsey-Firpo Fight. Finally she entered a gallery of Amerindian primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between the Hopis of Arizona and the Zunis of New Mexico, the relative merits of such artists...
...collection: Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There...
...Firpo Jacko...
...Boston, Dr. Daniel Davenport was prevented from lecturing on Africans with a cinema called Jan go, in which appeared a cannibal called Maluba, because Maluba informed police that his real name was Firpo Jacko, that he was a janitor in a Harlem apartment house, that Dr. Davenport owed him $990 back...