Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds), and Mr. J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office. Sir John Hanbury-Williams led the party to the throne room where Edward of Wales shook hands with a representative of the murderers of his father's cousin...
...They are but the military manifestation of that empire and for every Marine spending Christmas away from home this year there are more U. S. civilians abroad than ever before. From countless U. S. homes this month have gone forth Christmas boxes and bundles to countless far-flung civilian Jacks. Toms, Ikes, Petes. The year had been generous at home but many a son could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard...
...Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
...Jack Dempsey. Discussing people who got in on passes, Judge Landis said severely: "Jack Dempsey had no business in the press box at the last world series game in Chicago...
...mutinies trouble the ship on the seas; there are no primitive struggles of man and woman, man and elements, in the Jack London tradition. Of course there is a storm, but it is not the shipwrecking kind; and on shore, there is a native chief who falls in love with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that...