Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I took the title from Sullivan and I held it until '97 when Bob Fitzsimmons made the solar plexus famous with his blow that earned him the crown. It's queer but no one but doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight...
...opportune moments, the Papacy can and does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...
...people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded and probably sold. Hence the "in-a-nut-shell" sales elocutions on "good" music with which Victor...
...died in her throat. Mrs. Youmans' eyes blazed. One of her sets of thick fingers had closed around Teacher Dougherty's windpipe. The other set methodically clawed skin from Teacher Dougherty's face and clothes from her back. The fingers also doubled up and smote a blow that left lumps on Teacher Dougherty's jaw. A jury of sophisticates in nearby Haverstraw, N. Y., found Mrs. Youmans guilty of assault, battery and disturbing the peace; fined her $10. Teacher Dougherty, the jury declared, was mistress of her schoolhouse and even if Abe Conklin was the only...
...Blow, winds, blow...