Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...
...start of the twelfth however, Sharkey darted from his corner, shot his right fist to McTigue's jaw with spectacular results. A fountain of blood spurted from the Irishman's mouth continued to spurt. Both fighters were soon smeared from head to heel with Celtic gore. Spectators, bloodthirsty of nature, were visibly relieved when Referee McPartland stopped the fight, giving Sharkey credit for a technical knockout...
...warm for its day). At that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless...
Author Benson, British, is married to an Irishman and lives in Manchuria. She raises hounds, plays the guitar...
...little Irishman (Mickey Walker, onetime welterweight champion) knocked a nice black man (Tiger Flowers) down on his haunches with a smack on the jaw. Up jumped Flowers and began to lace the countenance and torso of Walker with a long left hand in the manner of a man painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago...