Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose...
Richard Morgan IV '36, who has been a member of the sabre team for the last two years, competed in foils for the first time and won his bouts. Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39, captain of the Loomis team last year, distinguished himself by being the only member of the Freshman squad to win his bout in the sabre contests...
...huge silver Emperor's Cup. Sumo has nothing to do with jujitsu or its modernized form judo, the art of self-defense in 250 holds which is compulsory in all Japanese schools. Sumo started in 23 B.C., long before jujitsu had been thought of. Winner of the first bout on record, Sukune is now the God of Japanese wrestlers. In 858, two sons of Emperor Buntoku wrestled for the throne. Koneshito won, instituted sumo as Japan's national sport. Professional wrestling became popular in 1600, has remained so ever since...
...easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin'. I'm not foolin' myself. But there's no use cryin' 'bout that now, is they...
...Peroy in Bout...