Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...
...hairy, blood-stained form of Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, pounded its blundering way to a knockout over Bill Brennan in the twelfth round of a scheduled fifteen round fight at Madison Square Garden. Showing nothing but courage and a vicious right, Firpo battered through the superior defense of the veteran to win by assault rather than strategy...
...hundred and thirty-five pounds of Luis Angel Firpo, pretender to the throne of Jack Dempsey, arrived in New York from his native Argentina. The immediate objective of Firpo's wanderings is a bout with the aged British heavyweight, Bill Brennan, at Madison Square Garden on March 14 under the aegis of Tex Rickard. If Brennan allows himself to be dispatched with the deftness and dociliity that has characterized his appearances before other young heavyweights, Firpo will be matched with Willard, Floyd Johnson, and-if fate favors him-with Dempsey...
...Sienese painting represents a half-length figure of the Madonna with her arm around the Child, Who stands at her left. His hand upraised in blessing. In each of the upper corners of the picture may be seen the head and shoulders of an adoring angel. The painting is closely related to the work of Pietro Lorenzetti, one of the three greatest masters of the Sienese School...
...Angel Child, Fox Trot...