Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first half on an end run and a pass, spent the third quarter fighting off threatening short passes, hurled with deadly accuracy by Chilson, flashy Boulder half, and resumed the offensive in the fourth quarter. The work of Hawaii's line stood out, especially that of Jim Cruickshank, rated by all who have seen him as the best centre on the Pacific coast...
...Puritan, for another, as a race partisan. He cited the case of a Negro girl who had been sent home because she could not explain how she happened to possess a $5 bill. Here there was a knot. Dr. Du Bois went on to tell how President McKensie had "jim-crowed" the students of Fisk, had caused a colored Bishop to be insulted. Said he: "I am told that the Jubilee Club gave a concert down town this year. Not only was the colored audience segregated, but the colored mothers were separated from the white teachers, and different windows were...
...bout was in the same hall where Senator Jim Reed-surely you know his state-frequently has exhorted the populace. You say the bout was "in full view of 15,000 Kansans," and refer to the "thunderous applause of the Kansans." Remarkable, indeed. that all the spectators should have come from the other side of the line...
Died. James Patrick ("Big Jim") O'Leary, 60, "Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...
...visitor is ushered into the death house of a Western penitentiary. In five hours, Jim Warren is to die for a murder he did not commit. Two hours later, Jim gets out of the electric chair, the visitor out of his orchestra chair and everyone goes home happily. Meanwhile, the action dips into the past and depicts the murder, committed by the daughter of the criminal for whose sake he v;is about...