Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports that mild-tempered Koreans were about to wage a Boxer massacre were ill-founded. Koreans happen to like missionaries. They evidently realized that Missionary Haysmeir was an unbalanced member of a fanatical sect...
...referee's course was plain before him and he took it. The ladies of Bridgeport, Conn., where amiable young Delaney trains and where he is often called "Gentleman Jack," can now enlist, for their teas and charity sociables, not merely an obliging and handsome young exhibition boxer but the world's champion lightheavyweight...
Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
Georges Carpentier was once a great boxer. Slender and genteel, he lambasted British plug-uglies in Paris sporting clubs; and proved that although he wore an orchid in the evenings and received perfumed notes in the mornings he could hit hard and dodge adroitly. Last week for nine seconds Carpentier lay on his face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas...
...Passed the bill increasing by $18,000,000 a year the pensions allowed U. S. veterans of the Spanish, Philippine and Chinese Boxer Wars...