Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oklahoma is no stranger to impeachment matters. In 1921, Governor J. B. A. Robertson's impeachment case was dropped when the House came to a tie vote. In 1923, Governor Jack C. Walton was impeached and ousted from office...
...whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President William F. Carey, Wall Street contracting engineer, builder of the new Manhattan and Boston Madison Square Gardens, onetime Rickard Partner in Paraguayan cattle-ranchholdings. Jack Dempsey refused to consider it officially; before any announcement had been made by the Garden Corporation, William F. Carey entrained with Prizefighter Dempsey for Boston and persuaded Jack Sharkey, who had lapsed into his habitual recalcitrance, to sign papers for the Stribling fight. Then Dempsey went to Miami, arranged details...
...until a prospective heavyweight champion appeared. Of these, only one had shown the vaguest possibility of becoming satisfactory. This was Maximilian Siegfried Victor ("Mocks") Schmeling who was once the champion of Germany, who has fought twice in the U. S., who is 23 years old, who looks like Jack Dempsey and is being taught to fight like...
...Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...
...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...