Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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NEVADA-Zane Grey-Harpers ($2.00). Jim Lacy, wild hombre alias "Nevada," chased wild horses through an earlier volume, Forlorn River, sacrificed love and happiness for his "pard," and disappeared. The present story follows him to the wicked mining town where he had made his name notorious for gambling and drinking. To the surprise of gamblers and dancing girls, Jim now avoided trouble and laughed off insults. He did not explain that Hettie Ide, spirited California beauty, had since come into his life...
...half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold of this crowd and patiently instilled into its mixed elements of fanaticism and craftiness, its curiously contrasting elements of idealism and greed, the dependable, cooperative discipline of a magnificent partisan machine. He made them click-the whole lot of them, poets...
Reconciled. James Alexander ("Jim") Tully, onetime boisterous tramp, later a prizefighter, most recently a writer (Jarnegan, Circus Parade); and Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully. After a separation of five days they were reunited, due to the efforts of Cynic H. L. Mencken, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, Novelist Rupert Hughes...
...small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana, whose candidacy every one accepted much as a paunchy oldtimer is accepted in a golf championship, Candidate Curtis telephoned his approval when he heard how Watson was conniving to block Hoover. "Go to it, Jim," he called. "I'm with...
...election in 1904. He measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight...