Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, a magistrate found Francis McLeod, 27, unemployed barge captain, guilty of smashing his four-month-old daughter in the face after a longshoreman had beaten him in a brawl. In Ashland, Ky., Willard Slusher, 27, was indicted for murder for having quieted his three-month-old daughter with a fatal slap across the head...
...platform, began: "I only wish to bring a message to the enslaved Italian students who are being tricked. ..." A professor shoved him from the microphone. While the guttersnipes joyfully rose to join battle with their gentlemanly fellows, the visiting Italians were quietly led out a back door. The brawl lasted 15 minutes. Afterward 1,000 students met in the college stadium for a rousing Fascist-cursing rally. Eleven ringleaders were suspended from college...
...back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists used in a lumber camp brawl out here. And it begins to look as if it would be a long time indeed before they will have become civilized enough to use the more refined methods of your Al Capones in settling arguments...
...Examiner, turned down several of Rudyard Kipling's now famed stories, presented in person, because "they were not up to the high literary standard of the Examiner." "Jim" Crown, city editor of the New Orleans States, locked all the doors of a church meeting which turned into a brawl and refused to admit even the police until he had noted the name of every person present. Henry Justin Smith, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, told how a diver, grateful for a courtesy extended by the paper years before, telephoned from the bottom of Lake Michigan...
From Pernambuco, Brazil, last week came word that Virgilino Ferreira da Silva. 34, "the John Dillinger of Brazil,'' had been shot in a brawl and died of his wounds. Better known as Lampedo (the lamp post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...