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Word: tex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referee parted their shoulders and Tunney, with a right and left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tsar | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Kleagles and Grand Goblins climbed out of stuffy trains, put on their night-shirtish regalia, paraded peacefully without masks. At their head was Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, dentist of Dallas, Tex. Shrewd businessman, he smiled, wondered if all those behind him had paid their dues. There were floats: "Miss 100% America" and "Little Red School-house." During the next two days, the mighty Kloncilium met to ponder on next year's schemes, probably to re-elect Imperial Wizard Evans for another four-year term. The Klan program now has four aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Washington Splurge | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Often has the clear tenor voice of E. Vaughn Ray, Maskat Temple Shriner, member of the first Baptist Church, rung out at funerals in Wichita Falls, Tex. Last week, once more, he sang, "Oh Lord, Is It I?" But this time his voice emerged from a record played on a phonograph in one of the Sunday school rooms. "Whose funeral is it?" whispered a late comer to an usher. "Vaughn Ray's," replied the other. "Don't he sing pretty? There's the body up the aisle, under the flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Medicine | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...James J. Tunney, and around them a whirl of rumors, complaints, offers, conjectures, and lawsuits. Was Dempsey eligible to fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York State Boxing Commission thought he was; the New York License Committee thought otherwise, refused to issue a license. Tex Rickard, promoter, thought he was; Padraic Mullins, manager of Wills, disagreed. Attorney General Albert Ottinger was asked to write opinions on points of law that would aforetime have been left to the bartender. Meanwhile at Saratoga Dempsey, growing rapidly browner and harder, continued to train, sometimes slipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Lincoln Nev.-Carson City N.H.-Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 48 States and their capitals | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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