Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn by Prosecutor Herlands and his witnesses, the seven defendants mostly whined that they had been...
...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ewins announced the birth of a daughter-"Another Social Security Prospect (Class of 2002 A.D.)"-on printed postcards which recorded...
Four major heroes of U. S. sport's greatest decade were Baseballer Babe Ruth, Golfer Bobby Jones. Prizefighter Jack Dempsey, Tennist Bill Tilden. Oldest (44) of the four, Tilden's years of supremacy began when he first won the U. S. championship in 1920.* Last week with the others all long since retired, Oldster Tilden stepped out before the winter's most socialite tennis crowd to play the season's climactic match. His opponent, in New York's Madison Square Garden, was England's Fred Perry whom Tilden has frequently called the "world...
After Coach Samborski had removed his fifteen handpicked Freshman basketeers, Cox made up ten teams from the remaining men and ran off a tournament throughout the winter which was won by Captain Jack Crane's smooth passing outfit consisting of Dave Aldrich, Bayard Clark, Charlie Clark, Nelson Gildersleeve, and Harris Westheimer...
Tulane's diffidence toward the offer of Jack's corpse was not without significance, for the whole subject of cadavers used by students of anatomy is one which medical school authorities understandably dislike airing in public. Yet since the 1880s the business has been aboveboard and regulated by statutes. Before then all U. S. medical schools relied mainly on body snatchers for their corpses. Bodies sold for dissection usually came from undertaking parlors and graveyards. As late as 1893 when Johns Hopkins Medical School was opened, the 1,200 students in Baltimore's medical schools...