Word: battler
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...morning's work of mediation. The real subject of the Norman-MacDonald-Lamont conference, however, was the reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support...
...belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years. In Boston, he is regarded as the next champion. Away from the ring, the hulking battler is quiet, home-loving; has two little daughters...
...Pittsburgh, 30 years ago, a strapping battler named James McCoy stood up to John L. Sullivan and endured, for a few rounds, the rataplan of fists as hard and heavy as stove-lids. John L. Sullivan is dead. Battler McCoy is an old man. Last week he was shuffling home from work through a lonely park when he was set upon by three weasel-faced fellows-men who, in soggy swaddling-clothes, were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days...
...with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs in his Sailings...