Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris fight fans, who gather at a tawdry nightclub called the Club des Cinq, heard the news at 5 a.m. Georges Carpentier, a not so galvanizing Gaul who once suffered deeply at the hands of Jack Dempsey, slapped the nightclub manager so vigorously on the back that the manager passed out and had to be revived with his own champagne...
...Mexico. Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez made enemies when he beat Governor John Dempsey's machine in the primary. Now state jobholders have been given the word to "vote as you please," and many consider that a green light to vote for hurly-burly Major General Patrick Jay Hurley. He has a good chance in a closening race...
Bernard thrills to the popular events of his decade-the Tunney-Dempsey fight, the Snyder-Gray murder. He joins in the terrible moaning of the crowd in Union Square when Sacco and Vanzetti are electrocuted. When, to his own disgust, he becomes a crack advertising salesman, he moves to what he feels are Bohemian quarters in Greenwich Village. As his income rises, his output of fiction drops proportionately...
...York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver, he toted firearms in a city room, fell in love, married, wore Jack Dempsey's cinnamon-brown, pearl-buttoned overcoat on his honeymoon...
...mature critics have called "Sole in Tom-Toms" wonderful. That's the word at least two of them have used--wonderful. What it contains is a collection of back-century anecdotes from the days of Buffalo Bill, Jack Dempsey, and Paul Whiteman, homely philosophy, and innumerable references to unimportant and only occasionally interesting friends and relatives of the author. It is full of phrases like this one: "I have never again heard from the crudite tea-taster, and what became of him I do not know. The busy years find us neglectful of those wise counselors who influenced our early...