Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoes are size 21½ and weigh 7½ lb. apiece. His collars are size 24, his hats 12¾. He used to be a wrestler but switched to boxing because he found no one willing to wrestle with him. Once at a country fair, annoyed by a strongman, he picked the strongman up, spanked him, was hailed as a fighter. He has fought a year and one-half, won 14, lost none. In the U. S. he will be managed by one William Duffy, sly Manhattan fixer and his partner Peter ("the goat") Stone...
Last week Col. Luke Lea, onetime "baby of the U. S. Senate," bought the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal. Abetted by Rogers Caldwell, Nashville capitalist, Col. Lea is looked upon as a special strongman in journalism and politics of the middle south. His papers: Nashville Tennesseean (morning and evening), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Evening Appeal, Atlanta Constitution* Knoxville Journal. He tried to buy the Kansas City Star, but his $12,000,000 bid was rejected...
...laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals to be seriously mashed...