Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emphasis that seemed more numerous than ever this year. But the season has been even less carefree in those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that...
Recent additions to the Modern Library series includes Norman Douglas "Old Calabria." Douglas is by no means as well-known as the author of "South Wing" should be known. Among a select minority of readers, however, he signs as one of the best of twentieth century writers. It is difficult to find more cynicial, tongue in the cheek, smiling satire than can be found in "South Wind." Another noteworthy addition to the same series is H. M. Thomlison's "The Sea and Jungle...
...Petersburg, Fla., nineteen-year-old Jeanne Durand wanted to set a new world's record for a parachute jump. Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
...Knox fought with the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War; in the artillery in the World War. As publisher of the Boston American, he came under the wing of Mr. Hearst a year...
Fascismo has its extreme right wing, a group of zealots called "The Savages" in Italian argot. Last fortnight one of these bravos, Signor Mario Carli, set forth in his newspaper, L'Impero, certain maxims...