Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curious first row gallery-sitters craned their necks over the railing, hoping to see something, breaking another Senate rule. The hour of 11 approached. Senators sauntered to their desks, rustled papers. A gratuitous informer in the gallery pointed, whispered: "See that handsome man with the white hair; that's Jim Reed; keep your eye on him." Members of the House stood in groups in the rear, sat on the lounges. Vice President Dawes took his chair. Senator Deneen of Illinois came in from the cloakroom with Mr. Smith, who took a lounge seat with the Illinois members of the House...
...condemned and criticized I shall not murmur, because I remember that Sam Houston, the father of Texas, paid the same penalty. If I am hated and abused, I shall forgive my enemies and find comfort in the recollection that Jim Hogg,* when he laid down the reins of power, was also hated and abused...
...schedule was all made out. That night at Princeton, I visited the rooms of some Andover friends, one of them a Princeton varsity player. Knowing my interest in the game, and my intention for coming out for the squad at Princeton, the talk turned to that subject. My brother Jim, in the Yale-Princeton game of the previous year, had had his nose severely pummelled, three ribs broken, his leg kicked, and bruised, and flesh gouged from his body. They laughed, and said: "Now that you are on the inside, we can tell you all about that. The night before...
...nigger men" and even more most certainly not the cowered and much outraged white women. . . . Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if in spite of Ku Kluxes and Jim Crow laws, "niggers" are good enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...privilege of arranging a fight for him, in Manhattan, next September, for a guarantee of $475,000 and half of the net gate receipts over $1,000,000 against any opponent Mr. Rickard picks out. To find the opponent there will be an elimination tournament involving Jack Sharkey, Jim Maloney, Jack Delaney, Paul Berlenbach and Michael Paolino. The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ring), and the winner of this challenge round will fight Tunney. Jack Delaney, flashy lightheavy-weight, popular choice for Tunney's next opponent...