Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prayers were constantly offered in Westminster Abbey not only for the King but for his doctors, nurses. A silent prayer by a group of British marines was impressively led, in London, by James Joseph Tunney...
Three of the prizefighters most publicized since the Tunney-Heeney fight are: Jimmy McLarnin, Gerald Ambrose ("Tuffy") Griffiths and Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"). Fighting his first fight in Manhattan last week, "Tuffy" Griffiths was knocked out in the second round by James J. Braddock. On the same night "Kid Chocolate" was cuffed around by Joe Scalfaro and in Detroit Jimmy McLarnin was knocked out by Ray Miller...
Americana. The U. S. has many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter, it would appear, are business conventions, talkies, the beds in railroad cars, Chicago schools, the faces of taxi-drivers, women temperance addicts, Will Hays, subways, Roxy's cinemansion, and Gene Tunney. All of these, J. P. McEvoy, who wrote Show Girl, snubs with villainous though somewhat protracted gaiety in this speedy second edition of his famed revue...
...program will start at 9.30 o'clock, when movies will be shown of the Henney-Tunney fight. At 10 o'clock O'Hara will start announcing and commenting on the returns at 20 minute intervals." He will be introduced by Edward Morley '29, president of the Debating Union...
...James Joseph Tunney took a year lease on a house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...