Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vernon, Calif., the night before, George Godfrey, titanic Negro, had smacked one Tiny Herman to the canvas four times in three rounds-and then once more. After the fifth smack, Tiny Herman did not rise again until the referee's arm had marked off ten strophes. Had Negro Harry Wills, Dempsey's Nemesis, appeared before the Vernon crowd in tuxedo or barrelhouse cutaway, it is quite possible that the gathering would have favored him with the same vocal bludgeonings that the Los Angeles group bestowed upon the Champion, for Wills is reputed to be dodging Godfrey even...
...Heavyweight Champion William Harrison Dempsey signed a contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded kelly...
...woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...
...College 1922, Candidate for A.M., Botany; James White Gould 1G., Greenfield, Ill., A.B. 1922, University Scholar, Candidate for A.M., Classics: George Claude Hicks 1G., Moncton, N.B., A.B. Acadia University 1922, Candidate for A.M., Biology; Frederic Chapin Lane 1G., Cambridge, A.B. Cornell University 1921, A.M. Tufts College 1922, History; Earl Godfrey Mellor A.B., Worcester, A.B. Clark College 1918, Instructor in Romance Languages, Clark University, Romance Languages; Harry Rowe Mimno E.E., Troy, N. Y., E.E. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1921, Instructor in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Physics...
...Died. Godfrey Charles Isaacs, until last fall managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., brother of Rufus D. Isaacs, Earl Reading, Viceroy of India; in London, of a clot of blood on the brain...