Word: lumberjacking
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...contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded kelly . . . Say, I wish I was as fresh...
...inside the Golden Gate. Almost he could see the red flag on this stern and that?the red flag with the white $ on it. That stood for little Robbie Dollar, who romped about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore to a virgin island, found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth...
...born 42 years ago in Staunton, Mass., and as a boy of ten went to work for a sculptor. His next job was in a fertilizer plant, but, loving outdoor life, he soon beat his way to Oregon, where he worked as a lumberjack until...
...relates the Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Something rather different must have greeted the Mayor for he has since recommended the expenditure of $42,900 for improving the Lodge. Nor is the parallel of reward and punishment lacking: through the good offices of the Mayor, one young lumberjack who proved his worth has obtained a job; while the somewhat haughty officials in charge of the Wayfarer's Lodge will be more careful in the future lest they again be entertaining "angels unawares...