Word: brawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took eleven hard-tackling New York cops to arrest famed Drop-Kicker Charles C. Brickley, 58, Harvard All-America (1912-13) and his 30-year-old son, Charles Brickley Jr., during an early-morning brawl in a Manhattan restaurant. According to testimony, the fight started when Brickley overheard someone say: "Is that old bald-headed so-and-so Charlie Brickley, the football player...
There were some 25 minutes of penalties called during the contest, but referee Cleary did a creditable job in keeping the game out of the "barroom brawl" category...
...real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes of penalties and four serious injuries, face off at 9 p.m. in the second half of the season's first hockey double bill...
...more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
...from spotty to feeble. Last year's cheers had turned to jeers. There were persistent reports of feuds on the club, and tempers were frayed. One story was that Center Fielder Jim Russell and First Baseman Earl Torgeson had socked a couple of critics in a hotel-room brawl; in any case, Russell turned up on the bench with a pair of shiners and Torgeson with an injured thumb...