Word: arnica
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...addition to his reputation as a first-class arnica and iodine man, Fadden is a highly engaging raconteur. During his travels around professional circuits, he has rubbed elbows of great and near-great athletes (it was Fadden who treated Ted Williams' injury last summer). He has a ready stock of stories which he can relate much in the manner of Ring Lardner's rookie. Not only that, but there was not one major injury during the past football season. Good man to have around...
...Jackson bruises leg," "Nadherny wrenches knee". . . this year, as ever, the stories come off the practice fields reeking of iodine and arnica. Two years ago they practically amputed Ferd's foot before he managed to escape from the pressrooms in time to smash Harvard into minute particles...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
...Biddle boy [Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia] is quite crazy, fresh and stupid, he has been boot-boxed once and threatened to be pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...