Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
...teaching younger singers his vast Wagnerian lore. With the proceeds of his 400-odd Metropolitan performances he has bought himself a home in Monroe, N.Y., where, with German methodicalness, he raises potatoes and experimental cherry bushes. For relaxation he climbs the surrounding hills with his tough-looking German boxer, hunts and fishes in Tyrolean knee breeches and a feathered...
Second, attraction is Comic Mario Moreno, known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
Fradd himself takes the 12:15 class, Tony Lupien guides the 2 and 4 o'clock men, Adolph Samborski runs the 4:30 group, and boxer Henry Lamar pounds away at 5:30, taking Lyal Clark's place. Baseballer Lupien's classes are in the Special Exercise Room, the others in the gymnasium...
...statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower of jewels. At his Golden Jubilee in 1937 he gave to charity his weight in gold: some...