Word: heeney
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Heeney's Mother...
Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...
...certain connotation through its best exponents, Tom's Mix, Heeney, Marshall, Lipton and a bunch of other good skates belong; when the noble order gets a dud, he goes as Thomas, or Woodrow if a stuffed shirt, as Tommie if just too sweet. Lennon may hear drums say wum-wum but they always call me by name. Long may they beat and in the same time...
...Expenses Tunney................................. $525,000* Heeney................................... 100,000 Yankee Stadium rent..............52,142 General expenses...
...public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed. Also present was Thomas Heeney, 29, hairy-chested blacksmith from New Zealand, who had never before been knocked out by a man's fist. He was beaten, that night last week at the Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose...