Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third preliminary. He was so fast that he never lifted his hands from his sides to parry, struck with his wrists slack and whippy until the moment of impact. The beauty of his bright, merciless speed made grizzled gentlemen at the ringside mutter of Kid McCoy, of Jim Corbett. They heard that this Slattery was still growing. "Three years from date . . . ," they said...
...Look at Drums by Jim Boyd and The Carolinian by R. Sabatini and two little sketchbooks, Isles of Eden and A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson of Baltimore, a lady whom I don't know...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...
...dollar a minute, yessir, a dollar a minute," I heard . . . "Yes, we have two maids now" . . . "And the boss said, 'I've been watching you, young fellow,' and I want . . ." "The hours after supper did it." . . . "'Do you think you could swing Jim Perkins' job?" he asks me and I says, 'Sure, I been working with the I. C. S. evenings!" . . . "I bought Mary that dress she wanted, and I says, 'Take this, I'm making real money...
Your issue of Apr. 20, Page 2, third column, asterisk note, the phrase "watered stock" evolved from the practice of this trick by the brother of the original J. J. Astor, not Jim Fisk, as you mention...