Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pianist Josef Hofmann lay dying in his home on Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, and were able to choose music to accompany his passing, if Retired Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney were similarly stricken and privileged, both men would ask to hear the surging Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...
Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...
Newsmen pelted Mr. Brothers with questions which he ignored. His smoky blue eyes stared at them disdainfully. On his rather good-looking face-a face resembling James Joseph Tunney-was no flicker of emotion. But Chief Roche was amply voluble about Mr. Brothers. Said he: "The toughest man I ever encountered! I don't believe he has a nerve in his body. If he didn't kill Lingle, then Lingle is still alive today...
...crowd a multitude and set it to tumultuous noise-making was the appearance of an ex-heavyweight world's champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross with his fawn spats and his red ribbon of the Legion of Honor...
Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...