Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, June 4 I purchased a copy of TIME and was delighted to find under the section devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...
...Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue to have faith in TIME. Jack Johnson was invited by the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance & Morals, to address a conference of that body meeting in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the time of the Methodist General Conference. Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue also to rely upon the reiterations of his Bishop; Jack Johnson did not officially address the General Conference...
...Jack Knight, air mail pilot on the Omaha-Cheyenne route, told his messmates: "I saw something on the wing wire. It was a sparrow. It didn't move. I taxied half way across the field. I speeded up. It fell off. The floodlight was on and I could still see it. The bird flew and caught up with me. Well, it landed right on that wire again...
...picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present and unhurt were Jack Dempsey & wife (Estelle Taylor), Richard Dix, Renee Adoree, John McCormick & wife (Colleen Moore), Marquis de la Falaise (husband of Gloria Swanson). The owner of the nightclub, Theodore Lodiginsky, 56, onetime Russian general, was seriously injured...
...Africans had time to dissect and rationalize their new flag. Basically it is a horizontal tricolor, reading from top to bottom orange, white and blue. In the centre of the white stripe is superimposed the old Orange Free State flag, hanging vertically. Adjoining, on the white, is the Union Jack, spread toward the flagstaff. Lastly the old Transvaal vierkleur is superimposed upon the white, spreading away from the staff. Thus the new flag, which might be called the "Union Union Jack" is one big tricolor with three little flags stitched in a row on the centre of its centre stripe...