Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beggars of Life. This story of Jim Tully's concerns hoboes. It opens with a murder. A lecherous farmer took Nancy (Louise Brooks) out of an orphanage. For two years he had "pawed over her with his hands." Finally at breakfast one day he attempted to rape her, but she pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert...
...press that you are going to vote for Hoover. I'se gwine to kill your vote." So telegraphed Jim Noble, oldtime Oklahoma Negro, longtime messenger to Oklahoma's Governors, to Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Oklahoma Senator and "bolting" Democrat...
...British open was won by Walter Hagen in 1922, 1924, 1928; by Robert Tyre Jones Jr., in 1926, 1927; by James ("Long Jim") Barnes in 1925. The British amateur was won by the late Walter J. Travis in 1904, not again by an American until Jesse Sweetser...
...powers. Nor is it that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch is as death...
...shook several hands, evoked the loudest cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed. Also present was Thomas Heeney, 29, hairy-chested blacksmith from New Zealand, who had never before been knocked...