Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
...quit because he was afraid of going stark, staring mad. This school had faith in the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. These potent papers quoted Tunney as he expanded on an incident which occurred while he was training for his second fight with Jack Dempsey...
...Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week. With his wife, Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, he began rehearsing The Big Fight, drama. David Belasco will lend a directing hand. Said Dempsey: "The regular actors won't need to take to cover for a while...
There were three significant men at the fight: Jack Dempsey, 33, who climbed into the ring before the fight, waved a straw hat, shook several hands, evoked the loudest cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom...
...knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed it was a conflicting temperament, a difference in culture, North and South: A voice, a fragrance, a taste of wine, A face half-seen with candleshine, A yellow river, a blowing dust. . . . In the North, Jack Ellyat pitied the fugitive slave, "a black man with the eyes of a tortured horse," but he thought of new states crowding to be admitted to the Union: The buckskin-States, the buffalo-horned, the wild Mustangs with coats the color of crude gold. . . . And must they wait like spayed...