Word: brawler
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...complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
...Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons...
Engaged. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime (1916) Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; to Frau Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz. General Ludendorff was recently divorced by his wife whom he charged with smoking too many cigarets; she charged cruelty and misconduct with Dr. von Kemnitz (TIME, July 19th...
Divorced. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; by Frau Margarethe (Bolle), daughter of a big dairyman. She charged abusiveness; he said she smoked too many cigarets...
...Monarchical demonstration is complete among these Teutons unless there is present the great General Erich von Ludendorff, more famed as a "beer brawler" (TIME, Nov. 19) than as Quartermaster Gen- eral of the Imperial German Army. So the Austrian racialists invited him to Salzburg...