Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Harrison Dempsey defeated Tom Gibbons at Shelby, Montana, one afternoon recently. The same evening, about eight o'clock, the New York American (Hearst) appeared on the streets of Manhattan with a picture labeled a "Telegraphoto." The American's contemporaries, the New York Tri bune and The New York World, discovered that the American's picture was a fake. They printed side by side with the "Telegraphoto" a picture taken at Toledo in 1919 when Dempsey knocked out Willard. The pictures were identical in every attitude except for the "doctoring" of a few details and putting...
...Stratemeyer says in his preface: "My Dear Boys . . . This line of books was started years ago with The Rover Boys at School . . . in which I introduced Dick, Tom and Sam Rover and their chums and relatives. . . . Having finished their education, the three young men established themselves in business and became married (to boyhood sweethearts). Later Dick Rover was blessed with a son and daughter, as was also his brother Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the father of a pair of lively twin boys." Dick, Tom, and Sam now live in adjacent dwellings on Riverside Drive. They would...
...Scandals of 1923. Another rich, variegated, almost overpoweringly sumptuous review-full of jewels, revolvers and pulchritudinous squablets. Costumes, costumes, costumes-choruses, choruses, choruses. Much beauty and little wit-the Tiller girls-Tom Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...there's the problem, too, for what of Babbitt, Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...
...Tom Taggart said little for publication, denied that he was booming Samuel Ralston (new Democratic Senator from Indiana) for the Presidency, then added that if Mr. Ralston ran he would have the unanimous support of the Indiana delegation at the convention...