Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are few professions in which men can die young and be said to have left careers. In politics, for example, there are 1,000 Henry Cabot Lodges and Uncle Joe Cannons, etc., for one Alexander Hamilton. It is the same in Business, in Medicine, in Law, in Education. From time to time we have our Charles W. Eliots, but how seldom do we have our Marion LeRoy Burtons...
...memories have taken shape in his mind, he has written* a book†. Like John Keats, he was a livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco Bay. Then he made a wreck out of Jake Kilrain, was matched with John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston. Sullivan "fell hopelessly on the ground...
...skyscraper of early American design, a guy by the name of Baker has just planted a new Business School on the other side of the River, and there is a splendid restaurant on the square. And as a matter of fact, I was having a talk with Joe Dube 1G.B. the other day and he sez to me that he liked the early Pullman style of Memorial Hall. As for a hotel on Mt. Auburn Street Joe was of my opinion too. We need a new Joint he says and seeing how our old meeting place, the Subway Rotunda...
...competition for the one-mile team is between F. P. Kane '26, R. G. Allen '26, L. L. Robb '25, Carl Lundell '27, K. M. Rogers '26, and Joe McGlone '26. At present Kane, Allen, and Lundell seem surest of their places. Kane is probably the University's most versatile track man. Besides equalling the time of any man on the squad in the 440, he could make a berth on the two-mile team. As a Freshman he ran a fast mile on a winning intercollegiate medley relay team. He is also a broad jumped and placed against Yale...
Near Milwaukee, in an insane asylum, John Kuehn, 57, "a man of mystery," seized a heavy mop. One Albert Joe did likewise. They duelled. John Kuehn was slain. Albert Joe, the victor, was subdued by guards...