Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which he held for a decade...
When Joseph Braddock, 76, father of ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, applied for relief in North Bergen, N. J., Boxer Braddock was chagrined. Said he: "He knows he can count...
Married. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 25, famed woman athlete, 1932 Olympic Games track & field star, expert basketball player, golfer, javelin thrower, hurdler, high jumper, swimmer, baseball pitcher, football halfback, billiardist, tumbler, boxer, wrestler, fencer, weight lifter, adagio dancer; and George Zaharias, 29, heavyweight wrestler; in St. Louis...
...YORK--Welterweight champion Henry Armstrong blasted his way to greater fistic glory tonight by successfully defending his title against a much heavier challenger, Ceforino Garcia, Philippine boxer, in a fifteen-round fight at Madisou Square Garden...
...that just such guns were in order has been one of Mr. Hore-Belisha's special responsibilities for the past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future...