Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years I had drunk one quart of whiskey a day. On January 28th, 1896, I took my last drink." So runs a typical testimonial to the once-famous Keeley Institute in the cornbelt town of Dwight, Ill., long a Mecca for drunkards who wanted to get out of John Barleycorn's clutches...
...Bold Step." Ten years ago, 59-year-old Dr. John Ralston Davidson, former associate professor of medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, set up a small laboratory in his cellar, to continue his experiments on mouse cancer...
When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such a bar-roomy brawl. In the first round Tony butted and backhanded. In the next, he wrestled and elbowed. Then Nova, whom the trade calls a get-even fighter, forgot his boxing orders and set out to get even. From then on he never had a chance. Tony butted, gouged...
...Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...
...Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese Restaurant. Most of the 30 newly acquired works were new only to the Whitney Museum, added to the housewarming without spoiling the old home mood...