Word: guys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They Knocked Out Guy Plummer in the First Round...
...Story.* Guy Plummer was the brightest boy in Junction City; Bee Chew, the prettiest and most interesting girl. Guy's father was a minister and poor, while Lawyer Chew lived in the only " mansion " in town and preferred Robert Ingersoll to Henry Ward Beecher?but that didn't make any difference to Guy and Bee. They quoted Browning and Henley to each other and thought the biggest thing in life must be to grow old together, like the picture in the advertising calendar of the stately old man and the silver-haired lady, holding hands and smiling...
Unfortunately, they loved too well rather than wisely?with the usual consequences. So Guy burgled a local store for the money to send Bee away to her Aunt Grace's in Kansas City and discovered that he wasn't quite such a noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that...
...Guy, he was simply baffled by the way things were turning out. He offered to marry Bee, but she wouldn't accept?she wasn't asking for charity. He knew he ought to be devoted to Cecil?but he just didn't feel that way. The child estranged them. To cap the climax, he found himself arrested and convicted for theft?out on the rock-pile making big ones into little ones. Life had knocked him out in the first round...
Singles,--W. T. Smith vs. Car Symington: G. H. Perkins vs. Guy Captain G. D. Debevoise vs. Will Bernard Bandler vs. Jackson; A. L. man vs. de Liagre; G. M. Laimbeer vs. Miller...