Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss America 1927. After days of posturing and posing in ball rooms or in bathing suits, prizes we're awarded. Miss Illinois, a middle-sized lightweight blonde whose proper name is Lois Eleanor Delander, was judged on points to be the prize-winning Miss America 1927. Another prize-winner was Miss Frieda Louise ("New York") Mierse, 15 years old, who was judged to possess the beauty most suitable to an evening dress. Run-ner-up to "Miss America" was Miss Mozelle ("Dallas") Ransome, a small-sized bantamweight brunette. After winning the blue ribbon, Miss America, a 16-year-old schoolgirl...
...chunky little Welshman named Frederick Hall Thomas, who had used the name of Freddie Welsh because he was proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...
...Pontypridd, Wales, 41 years ago, Freddie Welsh was born. He fought his first boxing bout at 19, quickly stepped to the front as a great defensive artist. In 1914 he won the world's lightweight title from Willie Ritchie. His best year was 1916 when he defeated Benny Leonard, Ritchie, Mitchell, Ever Hammer, Ad Wolgast, Charlie White. In 1917 he experienced his only knockout, lost the championship to Leonard...
Died. Frederick Hall Thomas ("Freddie Welsh"), 41, onetime lightweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; of heart disease...
Died. Stephen Adamczyn ("Steve Adams"), 24, Chicago lightweight boxer; in a bout with Champion Sammy Mandell; in Kansas City...