Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aimee Semple MacPherson, 53, Los Angeles evangelist-in-white who prefers folding money in the collection plate, was back on the job after a tough bout with tropical fever: "I have been close to the valley of the shadow...
Boxing is the favorite entertainment of the occupation forces on Guadalcanal. Every Saturday night U.S. servicemen, New Zealanders and woolly-haired natives choke the roads to the ringside, scramble for seats in trucks parked bumper to bumper. More than an hour before the first bout, every nearby coconut tree is loaded with spectators and standing room is hard to find...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will hold its annual spring pep rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
...again. Turkish chrome is a vital element in ball bearings, many other steel products. Of late it has moved to Nazi-land in increasing tonnage. Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Menomencioglu hardly took time to read an Allied protest before calling in the correspondents for a bout of oil-slick doubletalk. Said he: "I had an interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes our relations...
...circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach holdup. He claimed to have knocked out John L. Sullivan in a private bout in Manhattan. Ubiquitous grey-toppered leader of English sporting-life, the Earl deplored the passing of such gentlemanly pursuits as "bare knuckles, toe-to-toe" and bearbaiting. He calculated his personal budget on the assumption that he would die at 80, lived royally and fantastically, kept hordes of Rolls-Royces, loved...