Word: toms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed with seven names-the signatures of the seven richest men in Germany. It was an order for the destruction of Europe. Paris betrayed, London falling in flames-that was what that little laundry ticket meant. But because it fell into the hands of Captain Tom Preston, the conspiracy was undone...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
...these are almost identical in the two magazines. Asked to distinguish a difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight...
...them, like a giant's assorted bonbons, lined in neat layers Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Piled tissues of blue smoke hung over them. In the middle of the smoke, lights glared on a little square wherein a white man, a black man, opposed each other. Tom Gibbons, famed for lasting 15 rounds against Jack Dempsey at Shelby, was fighting Kid Norfolk. Four rounds went by. Black Norfolk bounded, attacked; White Gibbons stepped lightly out, stepped briskly in, drove his fists against the sleek black ribs, the shiny black face. The fifth round came. No longer did the black...
...loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America? Last week, he lost that crown. One Quintin Romero, Chilean, has long thumped his tom-tom, shouted that he would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable time this Chile-bean's challenge, they took away his title, proclaimed Quintin Romero...