Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...Married. Jack Kirkland, 36, playwright (Tobacco Road); to Haila Stoddard, 24, blonde actress; in Springtown, Pa. Playwright Kirkland, previously married to Cinemactress Nancy Carroll, Jayne Shadduck, Julia Laird, announced his marriage to Actress Stoddard a week before the wedding "to avoid crowds and publicity...
Since retiring from boxing seven years ago, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, has given his name to a Manhattan restaurant and bar, a hotel in Miami, a chocolate bar, a whiskey. Last week he gave it to Jack Dempsey's Sports Magazine. Wrote Editor Dempsey: "Hello, folks! Well, here it is. ... There never will be any dirt or filth in the pages of this magazine. Sports are essentially healthy and clean...
Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that...
...absence of Hal Ulen, president of the Harvard Coaches' Club, who was at Rutgers, Soccer coach Jack Carr, vice-president, and Intra-mural Director Adolph Samborski, secretary-treasurer, were in charge of the conclave...