Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the third successive Warner Brothers picture to be distinguished by lavatory scenes (the other two were Baby Face and Central Airport. A happy thought was the teaming of tough, noisy Alice White with tough, noisy Cagney. Without plot restrictions, it is doubtful who would have won the bout...
...unwieldy for women to handle. The lady fencers who attacked each other last week on the strips of the New York Fencers Club did it with light foils, buttoned at the tip. Last year's champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin...
...fences with classic style and admirable poise, but flashing speed has lately enabled Miss Locke to beat her. She did it last week not quite so easily as the score suggested, 5-1, then came up against Miss von Hansa for the second time. It was a terrific bout. Finally at 4-all Miss Locke, attacking steadily, reached a climax of speed which her adversary could not parry, got home the winning hit. That settled the championship for another year, because all three of the finalists beat Mrs. Taylor...
...time, three times a week, became a close friend of Marion Lloyd who, another Vince pupil, has the soundest technic among U. S. woman fencers. Dark-haired, calm, utterly unromantic, Fencer Locke trains on as much chow-mein as she can eat, never loses her temper in a bout. In her autograph collection she prizes most highly the signature of Helene Mayer, the German Army officer's daughter who won the Olympic fencing in 1928, is now studying in California...
...Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer: a wrestling match against Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), generally recognized as world's heavyweight champion; in 26 min. 20 sec.; in Chicago. Just before the bout ended, Londos caught Savoldi's arm in his famed "Japanese scissors"; Savoldi rose from the floor with Londos still clinging to the arm upside down. He stood Londos on his head near the ropes, rolled his shoulders on the mat. Without waiting to count, Referee Bob Managoff, onetime professional wrestler, tapped Savoldi's shoulder, awarded him the match to the intense surprise of both contestants...