Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...
...only William Randolph Hearst, who headlined the country into war, and the Lindbergh of 1898, Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago harbor, are alive (Hero Hobson is now a Prohibition and antinarcotic lecturer- TIME, March 2). All the others- Roosevelt, Dewey, Shafter, Leonard Wood, Sampson. Schley, even Col. William Jennings Bryan of the Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration...
...that time, Benjamin Leiner (Benny Leonard) had about $500,000 which he invested in real estate and a professional hockey team. A clean-cut little man with sleepy eyelids, confident, protruding underlip and well-defined paunch, he continued to be a familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists. Before every important fight he gave his expert opinion on who would win. In 1926 he allowed himself to be interviewed for Collier's. Said he: "My mother has pledged me against return to the ring. . . . They [promoters] know I've always kept my word...
...weighing what he said was 149 lb., and what some observers estimated as high as 165, not discouraged by the fact that all his oldtime opponents have retired (to become, variously, a boxing instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade...
Said Benny Leonard: "I have lost some money. Who hasn't? But I still have plenty. One thing that had a lot to do with my decision to come back was the insistence of my friends. . . ." From Benny Leonard's mother, who still lives in Manhattan, nothing was heard...