Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knocked out by a man's fist. He was beaten, that night last week at the Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose and left eye. From the fourth to the tenth round, "The Hard Rock from Downunder" was being chewed. And then his jaw, game and unchewed, received a blow which caused the heavy sound upon the canvas of a falling body. Several seconds passed and what was left of Heeney remained almost motionless. Then the gong rang, ending the tenth round. Heeney...
...Chilean Naval Ministry at Santiago announced, last week, withholding all details, that the transport Anagamos sank with the loss of 291 lives, after running upon a rock near Point Nordhuila, and that Captain Corbeta Ismael Suarez not only did not leave his ship but committed suicide upon the bridge...
...child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city. Omaha seemed clearly destined to be an imperial, or at least...
...cigaret girl had just given her first yawn. The blonde from Showboat was explaining for the third time why her girl-friend could not come. The lawyer from an Ohio town was about to order more White Rock water "or sumpthing" The Butte, Mont., mining man was laughing at the song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar...
Died. Mrs. May Skinner McAlexander, wife of Major Gen. Ulysses Grant ("Rock of the Marne") McAlexander, distinguished campaigner against the Spanish (1898) and the Germans (1918); in Newport, Ore., following eight months' illness...