Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reported by Police Commissioner Van Dine: 1) it was a hold-up and not a murder plot; 2) Since the shooting occurred in Neptune City it was beyond his jurisdiction.
Much more curdling was this bout than last fortnight's fiasco in Detroit when the welterweight (147 lb.) championship changed hands. In the second round Challenger Jackie Fields (1924 Olympic amateur featherweight winner) jarred the big jaw and midsection of Champion Joe Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees...
Frank James Marshall, U. S. champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He...
Aimee Semple McPherson, marcelled evangelist, asked the members of a Denver audience who were willing to give $1 to combat Satan to stand up. Only a few rose. "Play The Star-Spangled Banner," she told her bandsmen. All rose.
There were discomforts aboard?pro-hibition against smoking because of the inflammable hydrogen which kept the Graf Zeppelin afloat, restricted space for exercise, the petty distraction of cards and parlor games. An indication of the passengers' boredom was their excitement at seeing a pair of whales. After two or three...