Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer is E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, until recently associate editor of the Fairbanks News-Miner-a daily newspaper serving this community of 2,500 people...
...become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke one of his teeth half in two, left another hanging by a thread...
...Miner...
...Cried a miner's wife when the teller of a St. Clairsville, Ohio bank told her husband the iron potful of money he offered in payment for a house was $2,000 too much: "John, you got the wrong...
Matt Brush likes to give parties, with stunts. He collects elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...