Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
...crowd were George Giannini, Clark Gable, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Gene Tunney, Adolph Bernard Spreckels, Joe Di Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...
...evening last week at the White House a mixed group sat down to dinner with President & Mrs. Roosevelt. They included Presidential Widow Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Tunney, Tobaccoman & Mrs. S. Clay Williams, Mrs. Roosevelt's friend Nancy Cook, Tax Expert Roswell Magill just appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Wallstreeter Earle Bailie who might have had Mr. Magill's job three years ago if the Senate would have ratified his appointment. But if Franklin Roosevelt was inwardly amused at his guest list, it was not these guests who entertained him. He must have chuckled to himself...
...Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo or Tunney. It had appeared in the persons of hard-faced men who accosted him, snarled that it would be "healthier" for his restaurant if he joined their "association." A healthy restaurant, Proprietor Dempsey knew, was one whose waiters and cooks were not called out on strike, which was not stink-bombed...
Entertained by the personal reminiscences of Gene Tunney, remarks by Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, Jim Gaffney, and Bill Bingham, 150 former "H" men gathered for their annual banquet in the Varsity Club last night...