Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle were the political brokers, mostly Radical Party men like dynamic duelist-boxer Acting President Alfredo Duhalde...
Major Charles Boxer, who fathered Humorist Emily Hahn's daughter in Hong Kong and made it legal in Connecticut (TIME, Dec. 10), looked newsworthy in Tokyo to a Stars and Stripes reporter. But the Major, in town with the Far Eastern Investigating Commission, knew the essence of his own fame, gave the interviewer an acute lesson in journalism. Said he: "My news value ceased the day I married...
These three turned the ideas of old Major (he had died) into a complete system of thought called Animalism. Their most faithful converts were two cart horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had a hard time thinking anything out for themselves. But they absorbed everything the pigs taught them and passed it on to the other animals in simple form...
...Comrade! "The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership. Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horserake ... and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out 'Gee up, comrade!' or 'Whoa back, comrade...
...dingy gym on 8th Avenue, before last week's fight, the largest crowd since Primo Camera's day paid 35? apiece to watch Rocky prep for his go against Horne. At the Garden, 18,907 paid $108,974 to watch Rocky throw everything in the book at Boxer Horne, almost get his knockout in round 7. At the finish, a few fans booed. Said Rocky: "I win, didn...