Word: brawlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awaited The Lip at La Guardia Airport. Fred Boysen had been discharged from the hospital without even a bruise to back up his story. The press, scampering to the defense of Lippy, whom it ordinarily loves to ride, had found that Boysen had a police record as a street brawler. His first lawyer had withdrawn from the case. Morris Golding, the spectator who had helped to take Boysen to the hospital and called the lawyer, had revised his opinion: "I should have minded my own business. Boysen obviously wasn't hurt, but Durocher might be. I hope they patch...
...Good Things. At 18, she was a beautiful young woman with shining eyes and jet black hair. She wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh...
Another biographer hated by Robert was Ward Hill Lamon, also a Lincoln law partner and later his bodyguard. Lamon was a big, good-natured brawler, whose "office was conveniently located over a saloon, the remainder of the second floor of the building being occupied by a house of assignation...
...born in Naples and brought up in Brooklyn. He was hot-tempered, dramatic, sentimental and tough; a hairy, meaty youth with cold eyes and a brawler's arms. An ugly scar disfigured his left cheek-the mark of a fiery little Sicilian who was the first and last man ever to cut him with a knife. He fought with either his fists or a pistol. By the time he was 19, he was skilled in robbery, and was suspected of two murders...