Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominator. Marta Skavronsky entered the "tavern brawl" of Peter's Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...
...Security Council, in keeping the peace, should act only "in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Halifax and Harold Stassen pointed out that in stopping disputes the Council was a policeman, not a judge, and that it could not wait to adjudicate rights & wrongs while the brawl went on. Said Stassen : "The people of this world want to establish an organization which, when there is a fight, will say 'Stop fighting...
Orders are for G.I.s to get out fast from such commotions, under no circumstances to start a brawl in defense of what they believe to be their rights. Now M.P.s in white painted jeeps patrol Chungking's main street. They work with the Chinese police whose orders are to break up demonstrations. The municipal government is planning to license eight dance halls (heretofore banned) to give Americans some safe recreation. It is also trying to explain to the Chinese people that the Americans are a curious people who just want to talk and go out with women. Said Chungking...
...world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
Tommy Farr, battle-scarred, iron-jawed, onetime British heavyweight boxing champion, who stayed on his feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...