Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play in opposition to the Laborite jeers. Peace was restored to the House a little later; but on the appearance of Major Boyd-Carpenter to answer questions, the House once more resounded with boos and shoos. It is common knowledge that the gallant major looks like a " guilty schoolboy." Jack Jones, a London dockyard Labor Member, conscious of the resemblance, boomed out: " Hold your hand out, you naughty boy." The whole House then burst into uncontrollable laughter...
...Jack Dempsey: " I bought a controlling interest in the Great Western Coal Mining Company, a $3,000,000 Utah concern. I was elected President, and Jack Kearns, my manager, Secretary and Treasurer. As a boy I was a coal miner and my whole family is engaged in the mining business. We are going to build a mining camp and call it Dempsey City...
Since 1902 Langford has been known and respected by the followers of the prize ring. In better days he was so well known and so highly respected that none of the existing champions could be inveigled into the ring with him. Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard?none of them would fight him after they acquired their titles. Accordingly Sam dug along fighting second raters for small money. Joe Jeanette, also a Negro, was his usual opponent. They fought more than 20 battles, Langford winning the majority. The one man in the world that Langford did not care to meet...
John J. McGraw, Manager of the World's Champion New York Giants: " Some of my ball players have been throwing gin parties on the southern training trip. I fined and threatened to suspend Jack Scott and Earl Smith...
...family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage of the famous Stotesbury family of high society, and a millionaire. He is the ' Jack' of the fervent love letters...