Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
...Nick-a-Jack Cave, near Shellmound, Tenn., is a long black involved passage, coiled, like an intestine, under a pot-bellied mountain. Into it last week crawled one Lawrence S. Ashley, geologist, cave-guide. Clambering up the entrance to a secret tunnel which he had discovered, Explorer Ashley heard a great echoing roar as a landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving...
...undertaking parlor in his U. S. Army uniform, captain's rank. Actors, ball players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...
...Poor Nut (Jack Mulhall). Parts of J. C. & Elliott Nugent's play made into an inferior cinema tell a story about the despised college grind who turned himself into a revered athlete when one of the campus belles tinkled near his heart...