Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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World's Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, training in New York for a title bout with Thomas Heeney of New Zealand at Promoter Rickard's Madison Square Garden in July, was reported vexed at Mr. Rickard's Houston visit. Tunney was said to have said: "Why doesn't he stay here and mind his own business? I need him worse than the Democrats...
Arriving in Manhattan a month ago, one Milton D. Crandall rented Madison Square Garden and proceeded to promote a dance marathon. He installed potted palms on he arena, built small brightly-colored tents along its edges in which dancers might rest, be massaged, shaved, washed, bandaged. He secured the services of Andrew Jackson ("Bossy") Gillis, famed Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., who, after making a speech, fired his pistol three times into the air thus causing 132 teams to begin their exertions. A crowd of scornful reporters and a handful of spectators were present at the start...
...rain turned to warm fog, then back to rain. President Coolidge did not visit his office in the high school at Superior. Col. Lindbergh was reported flying to Brule from Madison, Wis., but he flew on over, landed at St. Paul. One newsgatherer got desperate and hired Carl Miller, a nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river...
McLarnin-McGraw. James McLarnin, lightweight who has a cherub's face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin...
...arrived at Madison, Wis., via plane, ate waffles with his classmates. Said he: ". . . the most fun I have enjoyed in a year." Not one of the 30 classmates present had known Charles Augustus Lindbergh when he was a student...