Word: tunneys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because some of the listed objects were easier to acquire than others. Sportsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt was appointed to set handicaps. As the scavengers trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
...best rumpus over referees' decisions since the Dempsey-Tunney mix-up was given football fans last week when the officials in two major games bungled up matters rather successfully. The facts of the cases have been already hammered into the heads of newspaper readers, but for the benefit of all let them be again repeated. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, refereeing the Brown-Yale tilt, allowed Clare Curtin, Eli tackle, to run with the ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line...
...Towne had a piece about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate guzzling at Princeton. There were stories by John Dos Passos, William McFee, Manuel Komroff, Morley Callaghan, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vincent Starrett. Bobby Jones, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Charley Paddock wrote about sports. There were cartoons by Alajalov, John Groth, Steig and four others, funny pieces by George Ade, Montague Glass, Harry Hershfield, photographs by Gilbert Seehausen, Paul Trebilcock, poetry by Joseph Auslander. Finally there were 14 pages with colored illustrations about clothes for all kinds...
...world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, John Barrymore...
...airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy. Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better results. An advertising man who finds his conversation witty gives him a job. Presently Bruce Foster has a large suite of offices...