Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only mauled white fisticuffers but married a white woman) would cause race riots. Of all the bumper crop of white hopes raised to beat Johnson, the choice of Roosevelt I and of Gentleman Jim Corbett was the then reigning national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill...
Born. To Ann Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl" and head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, amateur boxer, R. A. F. officer, and youngest son of the Premier Peer of Scotland: their first child, a boy. Weight: 9 Ibs. Prospective name: Diarmaid (pronounced Dermod), Gaelic for Dermot...
...black-turbaned, black-hearted Chinese Moslem named Tung Fu-hsiang, assisting in the barbaric anti-foreign Boxer attacks at Peking, eased himself with hideous satisfaction into a brand-new chair. It was upholstered with the still fresh skin of Baron Klemens von Ketteler, the murdered German Minister...
...skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese advanced on foreign citizens and interests with high-explosive accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan's diplomatic offensive touched off an intricate interplay which threatened to put the U. S. in a position where it must fight a naval war or resort to appeasement...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, when a boxer failed to appear at a charity boxing match for the Allied Red Cross, tall, grey-haired British Ambassador E. Millington-Drake shed coat but not tie, put on the gloves, sparred a few rounds with Señor J. Ambrosini...