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Word: jacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself, and was in a fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true explanation. At once my weird longings came under control. My hair-fetichism has since then been only speculative, though I doubt whether I will ever lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...should be, acknowledged World's Champion to fill the niche whence James Joseph Tunney stepped into the Social Register? The hope was that Herr Schmeling, who is quite as genteel as Mr. Tunney but whose fighting face and style sharply recall tigerish onetime Champion Jack Dempsey, would prove himself eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schmeling v. Uzcudun | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...putt that made the tie that let Jones win the tournament. "Jeanie Deans" is the name of the driver that hooked the drives that got into the trouble that made it necessary for "Calamity Jane" to work hard. The man who made "Jeanie Deans" played in the tournament. He, Jack White of Scotland, 56, was the oldest competitor. He started out to be a major sensation by scoring a par 72 in the first round, including a freak shot on the lyth. With 175 yards to go to the green on his second, he bashed the ball with a mashie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Open | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...second round old Jack White shot an 86, withdrew. In 1904, he won the British open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Open | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Later this summer, Herr Schmeling will probably fight out the world's title inheritance with Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), the glossy, glib, unconvincing Bostonian than whom, for the moment, the U. S. can apparently produce no heavyweight less unsatisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schmeling v. Uzcudun | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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