Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Experts' Plan is now undergoing the inevitable but somewhat tiresome political formalities before being officially adopted. International finance can scarcely accomplish much until this has been done, and the German loan floated. Soon the publicity tom-toms should begin to beat, summoning U. S. investors to the lottery in European stocks and bonds. Many prize numbers will doubtless be drawn, also some utterly blank pieces of paper. The beginning of this interesting process, along with our own Presidential election, should at any rate lend entertainment to an Autumn whose business prospects are still thoroughly uncertain...
While London was reveling in the adventures of Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle, was enjoying dalliance with Tom Jones, was boasting its two-bottle men, was attending the School for Scandal-while, in short, fashionable England was doing all the things which Queen Victoria soon put a stop to- there blossomed in the Parish of Olney a more godly literature...
...Preston, Eng., a nervous wreck crawled into his bed, refused to communicate with newspaper reporters. This wreck was Maj. Arnold Wilson, promoter of the light heavyweight fight between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, and "Basking" Jack Bloomfield, of England, in Wembley Stadium (TIME, Aug. 11). Reasons for the Major's breakdown were that his balance sheet showed a loss of some ?12,000; that Tom Gibbons, sailing for the U. S., had instructed attorneys to collect a missing ?8,061 of ?10,000 promised him by the Major: and his friends...
...Olympic (White Star)-T. Coleman Du Pont, onetime U. S. Senator from Delaware; Tom Gibbons, U. S. light heavyweight pugilist...
...have heard a vast roar of many voices in the grandstands. But his eyes were tight shut. His ears heard nothing. He was not conscious. The basking man was Jack Bloomfield, onetime light heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, knocked horizontal by the hammering face, rib and head blows of Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, Minn., in the third round of what had been scheduled as a 20-round fight. The winner surveyed his handiwork, returned to his dressing room, ate ice-cream...