Word: bearcats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable feature of the early 1920's was the Stutz Bearcat, a fast & flashy automobile that rode, looked, and sounded like a racing car. About the same time that Bearcats were reaching the peak of playboy popularity, Stutz Motor stock provided some excellent advertising by rising in a brief period from $70 per share to $724. That was the notorious "Stutz Corner" engineered by Allan Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan who in his will cut off his speculative heir with a set of pearl studs...
...motor industry pricked high this summer when Charles Michael Schwab, master of Bethlehem Steel, returned to his old interest in Stutz Motor Car Co. of America, and when the company returned with a rush to wide public notice by announcing a new model with the famed old Stutz nickname "Bearcat" (TIME. July 27). Last week Stutz President Edgar Staley Gorrell made known what the industry did after pricking its ears. Not one, not two, not three or four but no less than nine separate motor companies had approached Stutz with offers to buy, sell, merge or be merged. To each...
Babe Gordon is a Manhattan girl whose racket is to hang around prizefights, cultivate promising pugs, whom she then deprives of manhood and the possibility of winning championships. Like most girls of fiction she is young (19), beautiful, fatally alluring. Babe sees "Bearcat" Delaney in action, covets him, gets him, even marries him for a while. When the money is gone she leaves him flat, goes back to Harlem and joins the dope-peddling racket. After hours she has a high old time with "Money" Johnson, Negro gambling tycoon, then with Wayne Bald win, Manhattan socialite. She tricks...
Primo Camera, 263 lb., hit a 218-lb. Omaha Negro called Bearcat Wright so hard in the fourth round that a rope broke as Wright flew out of the ring...