Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Extension Magazine, official missionary monthly of the Roman Catholic Church, facetiously recommended the following Hoover Cabinet in an editorial: "For Secretary of State, the Hon. Jim Vance, President and publisher of the Fellowship Forum; for Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. F. Scott McBride, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; for Secretary of Labor, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Church South; for Attorney General, the Hon. Mabel Willebrandt; for Postmaster General, the Hon. Billy Sunday; for Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the K. K. K.; for Secretary of the Interior...
...Chicago, the Chicago Bears beat the Chicago Cardinals 34-0 in a professional football game. Playing for the Cardinals was Jim Thorpe, famed Indian of Carlisle, once the "greatest all-around athlete and the greatest football player who ever lived," who played baseball for the Giants, won the Olympic pentathlon in 1912, and is now 44. He played badly and was removed from the game...
...Jim Bottomley, first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, was last week awarded $1,000 and a diploma by the Baseball Writers Assn. of America for being the most valuable player in the National League...
...white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed and Jay Gould sorrowed sincerely; the masses, damp-eyed, mourned vociferously...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...