Word: muldoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William ("Noblest Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
Schmeling. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling would be a long name to in scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...
...Joseph M. Muldoon, Manhattan Smithite, affluent bachelor, departed from the U. S. "forever," selfexiled. Said he: "The 1928 campaign will brand Americans as bigots for the next century...
...William A. Muldoon of the New York State Boxing Commission announced that care would be taken to select as radio spokesmen at future fights, persons capable of describing the condition of the fighters without misleading overemphasis on bloody eyes, cut noses, swollen ears, which make "boxing" sound like "fighting...
Sergeant Michael Muldoon of the Brighton Police Force divulged to a CRIMSON reporter several suggestions, which, in his opinion would help to make the CRIMSON-Princetonian baseball game Saturday a gala affair. After three minutes of rumination, following the reporter's question he spoke...