Word: gene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suit Dropped. A breach of promise action against James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired champion fisticuffer; by Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorcee, of Fort Worth, Tex.; at Bridgeport, Conn...
Professional Texan, old-style, is Owen P. White, storyteller. Professional Texan, new style, is Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
Pitt's panthers pitapatted round Nebraska; the line poked holes, Fullback Parkinson plunged twice for touchdowns. Pittsburgh 12, Nebraska 7. Gene McEver and his teammate Hackman taxied 45 yards on short gains to ring the metre. Tennessee 6, Alabama...
...known in the chaste columns of the CRIMSON, has been called "Gone Again", "Off-Again-On-Again", and "Giddy-Ap" Gilligan. Wallace Harper, who will be missed from the Harvard lineup today, has been dubbed the "Ioway Dutchman", for reasons unknown. In general the nicknames are amazingly apt. "Gentleman Gene" and "Tiger Jack" just about describe those two ex-heavyweight champs. The local pugilistic comedian, one Mr. Stone, has been happily termed "Rocky" (Crushed) Stone...
...living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what...