Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
Then he revisited New Orleans, met Gentleman Jim Corbett in a square place with ropes around. Fourteen rounds, and the Strong Boy lay still, with blood purling down his jowls. By the ropes, Senator Roscoe Conkling, tall in black, was graven in wood; Steve Brodie, apoplectic with woe, wobbled about on his seat. Thereafter, the Strong Boy devoted himself to other activities...
...Stevens who, in real life, is known as Appanoose Jim to his fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood...
Sued for Divorce. Jim Thorpe, famed Sac and Fox Indian athlete, by Iva M. Thorpe, Cherokee; in Tulsa, Okla. She charged desertion...
They thought, as Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was reported to have actually said: "We'll have to tame him." The taming process they regarded as easy; the Vice President, as presiding officer, has almost no power. He can only interpret the rules; while, on the floor, Senators can say anything they like about him or to him, confident that they can make him appear a jackass...