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...least one of them it seemed just fine. Joe O'Mahoney has shouted for years for the development of the West, expense be damned. To him it means not merely more economic independence for the U.S., but industrialization for Wyoming and environs. Ickes threw in another shiner that appealed to monopoly-hating Joe: he suggested that all patents and processes affecting scarce metals, whether U.S.-owned or not, be made available to the Bureau of Mines for the duration...
...talking about his hidden gold mines, and though Scotty has gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week in Los Angeles court he sued for his share. Scotty, affable and fanciful as ever for all of 65 years and a gleaming shiner ("A mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty...
Dempsey's Shiner...
Inasmuch as I have never yet seen a published photograph of a prizefighter (successful or otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...