Word: jap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tore the heart out of Gardiner White of Nassau, whilom Metropolitan champion, argued well for his golf future. Howard Maxwell, onetime Long Island champ, also found he had strokes to spare when he competed with the cool-clever Jap...
...head of the film company which photographed the Dempsey-Carpentier fight testified that he had paid between $60,000 and $65,000 to three men for alleged protection in taking the fight films out of New Jersey. The three men, he declared, were "Jap" Muma, who represented himself as a friend of the Attorney General, William E. Orr, represented to be a friend of Jesse Smith, and Ike Martin, proprietor of a Cincinnati amusement park...
...process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels...
...Henri de Castellani of Paris, France, Philip Wigglesworth Chase of Milton, Alfred Codman Jr. of Boston, Lewis Mills Gibb of New York, N. Y., Robert Haydock Hallowell Jr. of Milton, John William Hammond of West Roxbury, John Rodman Hooker of San Mates, California, Sylvester Baker Kelley of Reading, James Jap Mapes of New York, N. Y. Charles Lawrence Peirson of Essex Fells, N. J., Henry Stanley Pinkham of Newton, Adolf Walter Samborski of Westfield, Eric Sandquist of Concord. N. H., Howard Parker Sharp of Pittsburgh, Pa., Augustus Ledyard Smith 3rd of Milwaukee, Wis., Percy Davis Trafford of Short Hills...
...Jap, I called it Albuquerque...