Word: bashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Messin' Around is another Negro musical show with an assortment of prancing and harmonics common to what has unfortunately become the type. There are two female pugilists who bash each other with seemingly unfeigned zeal, but they scarcely constitute an entertainment quorum...
...grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little...
...Conn., June 13.--When the sun set across the Thames this evening it left behind nine disappointed crew managers and mechanics and nine elated waiters, For the bash-slingers had just won a glorious victory on the diamond, to the surprise of the whole camp, which watched the fray from safe points of vantage in the coaches' cottage and the screened in dining room of the first crew...