Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...little Irishman (Mickey Walker, onetime welterweight champion) knocked a nice black man (Tiger Flowers) down on his haunches with a smack on the jaw. Up jumped Flowers and began to lace the countenance and torso of Walker with a long left hand in the manner of a man painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago...
That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
...Democrats, for a "social" breakfast; the Congressional members of a Commission appointed to arrange the celebration of the 200th anniversary (in 1932) of the birth of George Washington, for breakfast; Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans to discuss plans for adequate hospital facilities for veterans; Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing champion, to present a pair of five-ounce boxing gloves with the injunction: "Use 'em on your next Congress;" George Spring Meyer, of Reno, to present a photograph of the graduating class of 1890 at Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vt., containing three girls and five...
...worth much ponderous brawn. In Newark, N. J., before a vast crowd, two men continued this controversy. Though the difference in their sizes was barely perceptible, one came into the lists as champion of the big men-Mike McTigue, the 160-pound, world's light-heavyweight champion. Mickey Walker, 149¾ pounds, world's best welterweight, stood up for the little men. They scuffled...