Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reproved for a listless workout in the gym, Jack Sharkey, heavyweight wide-mug challenger, blustered "You didn't hear Caruso yodeling high C's on streetcorners, did you? . . ." In the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, Enrico Caruso was once heard by the late Critic James Gibbons Huneker singing for a flower girl who had asked for his signature...
...There is no one I'd rather see licked than that lummox," said the holder of a ringside seat ($22.50) as Jack Sharkey climbed through the ropes last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, to fight "Honest John" Risko, Cleveland "rubber man." Experts had picked Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach...
...relative of Bridgeport's famed fisticuffer, Jack Delaney, whose real name is Ovila Chapdelaine...
Always he trades honestly, operates frugally. "You never see gulls following a Dollar ship," is one of his sayings. Another, "We have passed the day when swapping jack-knives was considered trade." Another, ". . . the Chinese trust me. I have never found a bad debt in China...
...respect, it is a grandmother to Abie's Irish Rose. Critics were not allowed to see it until after a special performance for the Eastern Star society and a matinee for ladies only. It depicts a wholesome Irish family, whose oldest child, Doris, has been seduced by aristocratic Jack Conover. Jack's aunt, an advocate of birth control and kindred arts, persuades Doris to consult a physician. Doris insists on seeing her good family physician, who eloquently refuses to perform an abortion, rebukes Aunt Conover, suggests that Doris and Jack get married. It is meanwhile discovered that Jack...