Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail...
Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...
...that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto...
Inspector Hannen (Edward Ellis) faced all these dilemmas, together with a car full of yelping women, emotional Italians, contradictory evidence. He kept everyone there, including the corpse of Stock-broker Edward Tracy (Jack Lee), which sat upright in grisly electrified rigidity and a Panama hat throughout most of the play. Inspector Hannen questioned the late Mr. Tracy's lovely wife (Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace...
...impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields, it seems safe to say that the policy throughout was: "The name-of-the-moment, come what...