Word: tunney
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Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) is best known as the novel which glorified Gene Tunney ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
James Joseph Tunney, man of affairs, was in Mexico City. In the air, with the help of Tunney money: a new "luxury" air service to the U.S. and Canada...
Bernard thrills to the popular events of his decade-the Tunney-Dempsey fight, the Snyder-Gray murder. He joins in the terrible moaning of the crowd in Union Square when Sacco and Vanzetti are electrocuted. When, to his own disgust, he becomes a crack advertising salesman, he moves to what he feels are Bohemian quarters in Greenwich Village. As his income rises, his output of fiction drops proportionately...
Latter-day wearers of the Golden Fleece have included Rudolph Valentino (who was not permitted to open a charge account because Brooks Brothers did not know his antecedents), Gene Tunney, Charles Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal...
Greenwich House concentrated on improving living conditions first, because, as Mrs. Sim said: "What was the use of bringing art to people who had little soap & water?" Infant care and dental clinics, free milk for babies, diet kitchens, public baths and sports (Gene Tunney did his first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...