Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week two items of news appeared which told sportsmen that one of the greatest athletes that ever lived has faded out of sport. The items told about Jim Thorpe, the Indian. One described how, after having failed, miserably, to get into condition, he was dropped by the New York Club with which he had been playing professional football. The second stated that he had married for solace a West Virginian named Freeda Kirkpatrick, had started west for his honeymoon...
...April, 1925, editor of a publication which I called The Crusader. In the April number of said publication I wrote an article headed "Fergusons Encourage Crime." In that article I discussed the pardon record of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and in connection with such discussion I referred to Jim Ferguson in the following language: "All Texans are sorry for the woman that must bear his practice of using her as a rubber stamp that he may be rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that...
...therefore desire to retract said statement and attack upon the administration of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and upon the character of Jim Ferguson. I freely admit and acknowledge, confess and declare that my said statement in reference to Governor Ferguson and Jim Ferguson is not true in whole or in part, and my statement above quoted and printed in The Crusader was made without any foundation in fact or upon any excuse that would justify me in making the same...
...manuscripts is an original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...
...present play was born between the pages of Beggars of Life, a hobo biography by Jim Tully. Mr. Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...