Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 35 men interested in boxing, both beginners and experienced men, started working out recently in the Boxing room on the third floor of the new Indoor Athletic Building. Because of the fact that no contests are scheduled for the University team until after Christmas, Coach Henry Lamar, University of Virginia graduate and winner of the national Amateur Athletic Union boxing championship in 1925 and 1926, has been working on fundamentals, with a good deal of organized calisthenics and drill, including rope skipping and shadow boxing...
About fifty men turned out for boxing at the preliminary meeting held yesterday in the indoor Athletic Building Coaches Lamar and Fiordalisi spoke briefly, announcing the changes in plans for practice this year and outlining the course which will be pursued in regard to intercollegiate boxing...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...
...Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6). What impressed the President most was the way Bryan had stripped off his own clothes to wrap around his shivering schoolmates; how he had kept the youngsters from falling into a frozen sleep. Last week Bryan lay in a hospital bed at Lamar, Colo, painfully recovering from frozen hands and feet (they will not have to be amputated) when President Hoover invited him to the White House as an overnight guest. Bryan's doctors said he would be well enough to go in two weeks. Tears filled the boy's eyes...
Survivors of the tragedy were taken to a hospital at Lamar. Although snug in their warm beds, many a frightened scream escaped them in the night as the children, fast asleep, dreamed of the terrifying hours in the bleak...