Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lynch, champion bantamweight boxer of the world, had agreed to risk his title against Joe Burman, Chicagoan. The day before the fight, Lynch reported himself disabled. Asked how that happened, he stated that in stepping from a taxi his feet had become entangled with his pet collie, he had lost his equilibrium, collapsed upon the sidewalk, arisen with a subglenoid dislocation of the shoulder...
Sportdom listened with suspicion to Lynch's tale. Burman scurried to the Boxing Commission, "weighed in" properly, was declared world's bantamweight champion. Promoter Tex Rickard went scouting in Harlem for a substitute for Lynch, returned to Madison Square Garden with a spindly Jew named Abe Goldstein...
Putting his slender arms into rapid motion, Abe Goldstein dizzied and dazzled Joe Burman during eight of twelve rounds, was declared winner and champion, went to bed with kindly feelings toward Joe Lynch...
...again attacked in fiction, this time from an extremely modern and expressionistic angle. Virginia Hade, haughty Southern beauty, meets John Cloud, young, intelligent Negro, in the woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more-so she doesn't, and he is lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students of the most recent literary...
...Merrill, Lynch & Co. have been foremost in financing seven large chain store systems?S. S. Kresge & Co., the McCrory Stores Company, the Acme Tea Company, Jones Brothers Tea Company, J. C. Penney Company, G. R. Kinney & Company, the Melville Shoe Company. These companies operate about 2,000 stores, whose total sales in 1922 exceeded...