Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that if the participants cannot be encouraged to continue the bout in subsequent numbers, fresh combatants can be found for what is, after all, one of the most enjoyable features of the Guardian...
...theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop...
...National Boxing Association's champion since he outpointed Freddie Miller in Washington last year. Negro Henry Armstrong, 24, has been recognized as champion in California since he knocked out the New York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong had to do to become featherweight champion was to beat Petey Sarron...
...other house bout saw Dudley win its first game of the season and place Dunster in sole possession of the cellar berth in the league. The score was 6-0, the lone touchdown being registered at the close of the first half after Dunster had made several spectacular goal line stands...
...crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen give Gerald's education...