Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week of preparation for his first national appearance, the Warrior tried to point at a specific Whisper and track it down. A man named Keenan in Parkersburg, West Va., had written him that a woman named Bauer in Parkersburg was passing around word that a woman named Sanford in Syracuse, N. Y., had written her that she had seen the Warrior "disgustingly intoxicated" at the Syracuse, N. Y., State Fair. It was just the sort of story that is heard at least weekly by most of the Warrior's friends and foes alike...
...University offices. The Hallowell gate which is practically completed lies in a direct line with the Dudley gate on the north side of the street and the Varsity Club entrance, Hallowell was for three years a letterman in football, and for four years a member of the Crimson track team. The structure was designed and executed by Elliot T. Putnam '01, a Boston architect...
...consistent favorite on the track was Eddie Buzzell in the part of a youngster who came from the country to Manhattan where, by the simple trick of owning a doll which suggested a good number in a musical show, he made a fortune and won the heroine, impersonated by the spry and pretty Barbara Newberry. Aside from the mechanical innovations, the most noteworthy ingredient of Good Boy was Charles Butterworth, cast in the role of a cynical farm-lout. This curious and doleful personage often put his hands above his head and remarked, "Oh, the pity...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
When Nick F. wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...