Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campolo v. Scott. After elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
...five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic, Jewish fraternal organizations parading amiably together. Up-and-coming Baltimoreans, impatient with these oldtime mementos, bustled pridefully at reminders of civic betterments: police floats "Heroism" and "While Baltimore Sleeps," Bureau of Street Cleaning...
...founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without any specialized education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation ago they were entering the older professions. There was dawning for business--and those who stood highest...
Timid Man. His feet, knees, elbows and wrists are turned in. While his hand is turned out, his thumb is covered by his fingers. Often timidity is betrayed by a curled little finger. His chest is low, his head on an angle, his chin raised...
...Louis Club, is a poor fourth, mostly through collapse of the pitching staff. The New York "Giants" are third but here again the common ailment of poor pitching has been a grave handicap. Pitcher Grimes, whose fine work has held up the Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into a fist fight with a Cincinnati player), Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. The Chicago Club has three first...