Word: mike
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately in a cuspidor...
...home plate standing up on a close play-the sin of sins. He was pert, fresh, insolent, outrageous. But he was a born baseball player and the manager, Cliff Macklin, (Warner Richmond) knew it. After an entertaining series of adventures in which the audience sees expertly photographed pictures of Mike Donlin, Irish Meusel, Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball action and almost smells the fresh rolled diamond, the frowsy gloves, the players' sweaters, the hero is filmed winning the final world series game for his team by sliding for home with a vicious lunge that sweeps him along...
...Watch his left, Mike. . . . Take it easy. . . . Take it easy. . . . Now, Mike...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
Many a fighting Mike & Ike have been enjoying the ministrations of Mrs. H. T. Tebrinke, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., who claims the distinction of being the only duly dicensed woman second in the world. Mr. Tebrinke, nominal head of the family, manages a stable of boxers. These boxers, it is said, clamor to have Mrs. Tebronke in their corner, preferring her to trousered precedent. She knows her job they explain, and brings them luck...