Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Denied. Miss Mary Eaton, musical comedy actress, to Boxer Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man of France." Said she: "Preposterous . . . he is married and has children...
Born. To Pancho Villa, champion flyweight boxer (108 lb.), a son (10 lb.); in Manila...
...civilization and to find the scales of judgment weighing in China's favor. Consequently, this class has been able to stir the masses out of their traditional inertia and to fan the smoldering fires of latent indignation into a fiery movement that does not lack analogy to the Boxer uprising of 1900. Bolshevik influences, including money, are no doubt a contributing cause of the disaffection, but can be largely discounted...
Then there are the foreigners. They are always there--more and more of them. The good old Boxer days were the days of real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human...
...entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain, who put out wethered; but Grant in turn was beaten by R. W. Crummack, Lancashire champion. Bombardier Wells, British boxer, qualified for the tournament, won twice before he fell. Cruikshank, Britisher from the Argentine, was eliminated; only Robert Harris of Scotland, Captain of the British Golf team that opposed the U. S. in 1922 and 1923, was left to face K. F. Fradgely who, weakened by a recent illness, unnerved...