Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...
...fair, long the scene of the inconsequential activities of characters in novels, is about to receive the leader of the only art in which personal supremacy is incontestably provable at one blow. Second in national importance only to Colonel Lindbergh, Mr. Tunney feels that this is the best way to acquire the liberal education which heretofore time has not allowed him to pursue just what led him to feel that the epitome of world culture is contained within this glittering district is not clear. Perhaps Iris March told...
...sojourn in the forest of Arlen; that is, if he can see the forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking the spice out of the intelligentsia. His fistic traditions should prompt him to pick...
...parties. Will Senator Norris plump for Smith in his nationwide hookup? What of Wisconsin's young La Follette: is he pro-Smith or just anti-Hoover? Cyrus McCormick, great-named oldtime Chicago Democrat, has not yet spoken. It is known, now, where Col. Lindbergh stands (pro-Hoover) and Bridegroom Tunney (pro-Smith). But where are the John Davison Rockefellers? Who gets Scarface Al Capone? Is Aimee Semple McPherson on the side of salvation and, if so, which side is that...
Married. Ex-fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; and Mary Josephine Rowland ("Polly") Lauder of Greenwich, Conn., granddaughter of the late George Lauder, who was first cousin of Andrew Carnegie & organizer of Carnegie Steel Corp.; in Rome, Italy...