Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver Peak range...
...loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...
...talk several of his friends entered, but to interrupt him was out of the question. Once, while John was drawing a breath, one of the newcomers asked. "When you came here, was Sophocles, the great Italian Philosopher over there in Holworthy?" John cogitated a moment, and replied. "No, but Jim Slocum...
...autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden's nose from photographs, blue-prints and blackboard drawings. "Whenever you see that nose, sock it", the young gentlemen from Princeton were instructed...
...Cicero is called 'The Count" by his colleagues, for his tales of former glory. He frequently shaved "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan, Governor Whitman, William A. Brady. Charles M. Schwab, Andrew Carnegie, George Young* and scores more preferred him to all barbers. Publisher Govin of the Journal of Commerce took him abroad as private barber and interpreter, later helping him start a mineral-water...