Word: jim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright spots, however, in yesterday afternoon's damp 60 minute scrimmage was the work of Jim Devine, A team right end, who looked good on the receiving end of Captain Torbie Macdonalds's tosses...
When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such a bar-roomy brawl. In the first round Tony butted and backhanded. In the next, he wrestled and elbowed. Then Nova, whom the trade calls a get-even fighter, forgot his boxing orders and set out to get even. From then on he never had a chance. Tony butted, gouged...
...show called Gay Nineties Revue, in which, every Sunday evening since July, grey old Joe has been barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such ghostly patrons as Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, David Warfield, Lew Dockstader and the Madison Wheelmen, while a good, corny music-hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics...
Last week his successor, husky, 61-year-old Samuel Brown Robertson, wound up his 20-year career with Goodrich by resigning. Unlike Jim Tew, Goodrich's sixth president (since 1870) did not sound off about signing...
...fleet captain with the rakish stride figured in all of the scores. Four times he was on the tossing end of conceded touchdown pass plays, having Joe Gardella, Gene Lovett, Charley Spreyer and Jim Devine on the receiving end. After they had eluded the secondary, Coach Dick Harlow's whistle brought the ball back to midfield each time...