Word: mckevitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward...