Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing for the New Yorker, Manhattan sophistisheet, Mr. Woollcott also speaks over radio station WOR, calling himself the "Town Crier...
Newsmen, scarcely believing Cracker-shot Pershing could commit such an error, tried to verify the Woollcott beat. From Paris, the general was quoted as saying: "There is absolutely nothing to it." In Manhattan Financier Baruch insisted: "It is pure fiction. I ought to know...
Campolo v. Scott. After elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan; by Mrs. Marie Louise Hamilton, daughter of C. Ledyard Blair, rich Manhattan broker; at Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion, mental cruelty...
Died. Miller J. Huggins, "mite manager" (1918-29) of the New York American League baseball team ("Yankees"); in Manhattan; of erysipelas...