Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, digging into a job he knows and loves, this is pretty near heaven. But it is not heaven. In heaven there would be no autograph hunters, newspaper reporters and jumping-jack photographers lurking around the corners. There would be no cranks, columnists and newshawks to beset him from a distance. There would be no need for an armed guard around the Morrow estate in Englewood, N. J. where his wife and two sons live. And in heaven he would not have to endure his own unyielding but logical resentment against...
...midge-sized Negro bootblack named Charles McFarland tried to get $3,000 damages from ex-Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey. His story: because he inadvertently tickled Dempsey's ribs while adjusting his coat, Dempsey fetched him a belly blow, damaged his already ulcerated innards. Dempsey's successful defense: "If I had socked this little guy he wouldn't be here to tell his story. And if I have to pay him $3,000 I feel that I should be entitled to one punch...
...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
...last week in a formal complaint that the Ray E. Dunlap Enterprises at the New York World's Fair had "intimidated, coerced and warned its employes not to exercise their rights of self-organization for collective bargaining." The employes: 17 itinerant guess-your-weight artists. They included Guesser Jack A. Whyte and his sons Frank and Clifford, who guessed that they could get away with forming a union, were fired for their error...
...Crimson team, composed of Ben Forhes at one, Gay Dillingham at two, Ben Dillingham at three, and Cam Burage at back, with Jack Lewis as alternate, led four to three at half time...