Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven in their annual game against Harvard, scored two goals from placement, 'aided materially in rolling up a score of 59-0-an unprecedented total.' I myself, when an undergraduate at Yale, played first base on the University nine, was addressed by my classmates as 'Gentleman Jim...
...life of the professional baseball player is sketched, at least, in Heywood Broun's The Sun Field; the professional pugilist appears in Jim Tully's Emmett Lawlor; steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
...work, Liza of Lambeth. To the clinic at St. Thomas's where he studied, the poor of the district came seeking medical aid. Maugham found their souls more interesting than their bodily ills. He drew upon them for the characters of Liza, of Liza's mother, of Jim and Tom. The first book contained only a shadow of the future bitterness of Maugham's work. In Mrs. Craddock his sense of the mixture of tragedy and comedy is almost at its best-the same sort of thing which in its more precise form is seen in plays...
...Ringside. Gathered around at various ranges of visibility, notables from all walks of life observed. When Dempsey descended into the front row he landed not far from Archie and Kermit Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Sir Thomas Lipton, ex-heavyweight champion Jim Corbett, John J. McGraw, George M. Cohan. The visiting British polo teams were there, all the Yankee and most of the Chicago White Sox ball players, Lord Birkenhead and his daughter...
...cowboy in Nebraska. But he did not get to Nevada on his cayuse. He went there via a New York law school, and was sent out as attorney for the mining railroad and other interests of the Stokes and Phelps estates. There he became partner of " the famous Jim Butler," who discovered the Tonopah gold and silver field, and later had a hand in founding the Goldfield mines. So he is not a newcomer to the silver industry...