Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FANNY KEMBLE: A PASSIONATE VICTORIAN - Margaret Armstrong - Macmillan...
Latest addition to the growing evidence of bootleg Victorian unconventionally is Margaret Armstrong's story of Fanny Kemble, to whom Novelist Henry James, her close friend, paid this tribute: "She was one of the rarest of women. . . . She reanimated the old drawing-rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos. . . . An extraordinary mixture of incongruous things, of England and France in her blood, of America and England in her relationships, of the footlights and the glaciers in her activities, of conformity and contumacy in her character and tragedy and comedy in her talk...
...such level of eloquence and penetration as James's monograph, Author Armstrong's biography is nevertheless written with care and understanding. Her subject is a "natural," and, thanks to the fact that she quotes liberally from Fanny Kemble 's own vivid journals, the result ably suggests the reanimating qualities that inspired James's enthusiasm...
...last week's fight Henry Armstrong received $27,203 of which he must pay 33⅓% to Manager Mead and 10% to the original Harry Armstrong, who is now his trainer and poses as his brother. Signed up by Promoter Mike Jacobs for the next three years, Armstrong's next match will be with Lou Ambers next month for the lightweight (135 Ib.) championship of the world. If he wins it, as most experts expect, he will be the only fighter ever simultaneously to hold three titles...
...order to tip the scales at the required 136 Ib. (welterweight minimum) for last week's fight, Armstrong, whose normal weight is 130, quaffed a mixture of ale and stout, wolfed a big breakfast before weighing in. When the fight was postponed from its original date because of rain, he was not required to scale 136 again...