Word: tunneys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boxing or of the "Post" should attempt it. It has ever the inescapable capital 'I' of the humble boy who has made good, of the self made man, and of the athlete who is also a scholar, that irritates; and yet it has much that is enjoyable. Unlike Gene Tunney, Eddie Eagan ever sets himself up as a demigod, he has his weaknesses; and he never parades his "culture" and education...
Both parties stumped the State as they never had in recent years. The Republicans imported Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The Democrats called in James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Massachusetts' Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Senator David Ignatius Walsh. Interested but helpless observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, in Paris, following an operation for an ear abscess; Joe Walcott, 60, famed oldtime Negro prizefighter, in Manhattan, of arteriosclerosis, senile psychosis...
...colyum he aped the Brisbanal style, headlined it "Tomorrow." Excerpts : "Persons aboard this train are going to Los Angeles for the Olympic Games. 'Los Angeles' means 'the angels' in Spanish. Study Spanish. Plato said 'No man can know too much knowledge.' . . . "Gene Tunney, champion boxer, was talked of several days ago as a possibility for the United States Senate. Tunney in the ring would have been no match for a gorilla. The gorilla would have crushed him in ten seconds. But Tunney is more intelligent; he would be the gorilla's superior...
...nonchalant that it was seized upon afterwards as a significant item for the furious arguments that followed the fight. Four out of the last five heavyweight championship fights have had acrimonious aftermaths but last week's was based on something more tangible than a hypothetical poisoning (Dempsey- Tunney), a "long count" (Tunney-Dempsey), a questionable foul (by Sharkey in the fight which gave Schmeling the heavyweight championship two years ago"). Last week a large number of the spectators thought the decision went to the wrong man. While Sharkey leaned over Schmeling, Announcer Joe Humphreys collected three slips of paper...