Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, it seemed doubtful that Tammany Hall would dare to nominate a man to challenge "Red Mike" Hylan's prescriptive right to be perpetual Democratic Mayor of New York City...
...Diegel still grinned. Another 18, played in a high east wind, and Hagen still padded along in second place, four strokes behind Diegel, The two played together in the final round, Hagen suave but erratic, Diegel now scowling but still accurate. Final scores: Diegel 69 75 73 78-295 Mike Brady 72 75 76 74-297 Hagen 71 74 76 80-301 Andrew Kay* 71 77 75 78-301 Willie Macfarlane 74 78 79 73-304 Cyril Walker...
Then come the social columns and personal mention. "George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...
Those who hooted had seen this Irishman, Mike McTigue, light-heavyweight champion of the world, retreat all evening before Paul ("Punch 'em") Berlenbach of Astoria, L. I., who followed him with the angry obstinacy of an animal whose insignificant brain was fogged by the fumes of his very adequate blood. They had seen the Irishman's left hand flicker in the face of the assaulting one; they had seen him, in the sixth round, swing his right hand twice to Berlenbach's jaw, at which the latter sank to his knees, his cloudy face even cloudier...
Those who are pulling for a reversal of football fortunes under the Fisher-Daly regime cannot but realize that the absence of Mike will mean the absence of one of the most distinctive features of Harvard cheering and the loss of an unfailing champion against the bugaboo of Harvard indifference...