Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless Promotor Rickard said: " Firpo, in my mind, is the outstanding challenger for Dempsey's title right now. He impresses me as another Jim Jeffries?a better man than Jeffries was at a corresponding period in his ring career, for Firpo is stronger than Jeff and hits harder...
...Jim Larkin (recently deported from the U. S.), plus 100 followers, invaded Liberty Hall, Dublin, and ejected the officers of the Irish Transport Workers on the ground that they had been suspended. This is a move to regain his old ascendency over the Transport Workers. It was feared that he might start agitations against the Free State; thus his latest move only provokes the comment : " It might have been worse...
...This he did. But no sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again−or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman...
...Jim Bridger, the famous scout and liar, and his friend Jackson are wonderfully portrayed. The scene where they get "lickered up" together, and then each take a shot at a mug of whiskey perched on the other's head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems...
British links will soon be overflowing with American golfers. Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, and Charlie Hoffner have sailed to play for the open championship at Troon. Jim Barnes, Leo Diegel and Jack Hutchinson have booked early passage...