Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...Aren't they going to make you an "H" man out there at Harvard, Jack?" someone asked when he saw a CRIMSON man interviewing John Cucloskey, who fights under the nom do guerre of Jack Sharkey. But the latter refused to comment on the question...
...minor colyumist lately rewrote the old adage. It now reads: "All work and no play makes Jack...
...meeting is to be preceded by a dinner for twelve prominent boxers at 6.30 o'clock at the Varsity Club. Among these men will be Jack Sharkey, heavyweight aspirant, who is scheduled to give an exhibition bout with a well known heavyweight boxer. Another bout of interest will be that between two members of this year's football team, W. W. Lord '28 and John Parkinson '29. Preceding these exhibitions Dane Egan is scheduled to give a talk on boxing. Details of the spring practice and the coaches engaged will also be announced. J. L. Knox '98 will explain...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...