Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time?three strings of them?one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...
Dempsey: "Of course, I am anxious to meet Firpo or Harry Wills, and it is up to my manager, Jack Kearns, to sign up one of them for a match for me on Labor...
Thinking people will discern immediately that Dempsey has taken a false step. In fact, his ingenuous enthusiasm for this vialled virility seems for the moment to have swept him off his feet. Not only has the fighter become involved in this strategic blunder, but his manager as well. Jack Kearns, whose brain held up Shelby and the nation for $100,000, has forgotten himself so far as to give away the secret of his success. He, too, admits that Nuxated Iron is vital to his champion's " phenomenal victories...
...Jack Dempsey: "A facetious editorial writer for The New York Times referred to me as ' Mr. John Dempsey.' My real name, as everyone knows, is William Harrison Dempsey...
...result of conducting an all night ukulele party. Occupants of the apartment house in which the party took place complained to the police because the young man and his companions (who included artists' models, dancers and students) conducted their melodious roisterings without cessation until 10 A. M.!" Jack Johnson, once heavyweight champion of the world: "For a year I have owed Max Mallin of Atlantic City $12.50 for housing my $6,000 automobile. He and some private detectives collected this bill from me and my three sparring partners when we appeared in Atlantic City last week. I also paid...