Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...
...town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation...
...Harvard hockey team reduced in strength by illness will face a relatively unknown Crescent Athletic Club secret of Brooklyn, New York on the New Boston Garden ice at 8.15 tonight. Neither O. P. Jackson '29 or H. H. Newell '29, who have thus far divided the goal guarding duties, will be on hand and the responsibility will be shifted to W. L. Elkins '29 who has not appeared since the opening games of this season...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
...overtime contest, brilliant and drab in spots, the Crimson six fought the fast-skating blue-clad sextet from Toronto University to a scoreless tie on the Boston Garden ice last night. The Harvard hockey forces, though outplayed for the most part, succeeded in halting many of the fierce rushes of their New Year's eve conquerors by timely poke-checking, while the steady work of O. P. Jackson '29 kept the Crimson cage inviolate...