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Word: madison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a picture has been taken in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, of reeling, dripping men with their eyes swollen shut, their noses bleeding, their knees weak, their arms painfully raised to strike each other more blows for the glory of becoming champion pugilists or for the bald necessity of fighting to earn a livelihood. People glance idly at these fight pictures at home, in the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salute | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Last week people looked at a new kind of fight picture, 25,000 of them journeyed daily to Madison Square Garden to see it. They had long waits for their turns because the two circular viewing platforms built for the occasion would hold only 600 people at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salute | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Applications for the second group of tickets for the exercises on Class Day are due on Friday, according to an announcement made last night by Madison Sayles '27, chairman of the Class Day Committee. All seniors who wish to take advantage of the lower prices offered by the applications in this group must have their applications in by that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Applications Due | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

Roosevelt on Smith. In 1924. Franklin D. Roosevelt, on crutches as result of an attack of infantile-paralysis, pleaded for party unity to warring factions of the Democratic party in convention assembled at Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes for Oscar Underwood...

Author: By J. H. S. ., | Title: THE EARLY WORM. By Robert Benchley '12. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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