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Hudkins-Walker. Ace Hudkins, pal of Charles Lindbergh, bouquet-lover, and broken nosed punch-drinker who fights flail-fisted, lunged after middleweight champion Mickey Walker in a wet ring in Chicago. Rain on the canvas was stained with the blood that flowed from the lips and noses of both men. Walker won two rounds, Hudkins five, the rest were even. When the referee, with finger pointing at Walker, yelled "The winner, and still champion. . . ." the crowd jumped up and booed for 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...doffed their hats, whether or not they knew who it was that rode in the so beautiful automobile, The women answered questions volubly and swiftly appraised Mademoiselle's beauty of which they all spoke afterwards. At Napoleonville she made them catch their breaths when she laid her freshest bouquet at the base of a new memorial inscribed Aux Morts de la Patrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Idyl | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Hazard's Maggot | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Bouquet-Tossing Draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Christmas | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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