Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little except that Mr. Wills is a total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time, all that Mr. Sharkey won was the right to meet Mike McTigue (TIME, March 14); from whom he won the right to meet his fellow Bostonian, Edward James Maloney; from whom he won the right to meet onetime...
...story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...
That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
...Young Turks are not at all sure that they will find a second High Commissioner Bristol in his successor, the first U. S. Ambassador to be sent to Angora-Joseph C. Grew (TIME, May 30). Ambassador Grew is no salty sailor-paladin, but a Department of State "career man," until now Under Secretary of State...
Cukoschay, once a sailor in the U. S. Navy, has been a rising heavyweight contender ever since he put an end to the so-called "Senegambian menace" that sport writers attached to Harry Wills. He now stands in line in Promoter Rickard's notebook to meet William Harrison Dempsey in the summer. If he conquers Dempsey or if Dempsey does not wish to be met, Cukoschay will be eligible to exchange buffets with Champion Tunney in the autumn...