Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, two days before the big bout, the secret leaked out: Jacobs, fearful that fans might stay away from Yankee Stadium if they knew the fight would be televised, had gagged the network and the sponsor. Too much ballyhoo in advance might spoil his chances of a hoped-for million-dollar gate. This week, satisfied with the look of his box office, Jacobs gave NBC a nod. Eastern set owners could relax, and bartenders prepared to handle the biggest crowds in history...
...finals of the tournament, Fuller, last year's wrestling captain, took a split decision from Bob Girand, a man he knocked out last fall in an amateur bout. He gained his advantage in the second and third rounds after fighting cautiously for the first two minutes. In the semifinals he won a unanimous decision over Ed Moylan, a former Navy fighter...
...evening's end, Liberals were sure they knew what was up. King's visit and the support of federal bigwigs for God-bout indicated that Ottawa's Liberal big guns would move to Quebec for the provincial elections. If the whole federal battery was going to work on Duplessis, that swashbuckling politico might be in for some rough times, even if the Tories came to the support of his Union Nationale...
Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...
...replies, 'I ain't stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...