Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These charges made most life-insurance men, who regard their companies as models of business propriety, hopping mad. But they were determined not to get into an uncontrollable brawl. They left all the talking to the president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association, staid Henry William Manning. Snorted Mr. Manning: "The investigation is farcical as well as political and needlessly disturbing to 4,000,000 policyholders...
Marks put Paper Doll on the market, but it was still a flop. By the early '30s Johnny Black had given up music to run a roadhouse near Hamilton, Ohio. Outside this resort in 1936, in a brawl with a customer over 25?, Johnny Black was knocked down. His head hit the pavement, and his assailant drove off. Three days later Johnny Black was dead...
...Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce. But the fun all remains well within Hays office limits and thrives on the milk-fed energy of its participants...
...more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even one or two preserved starfish...
Concealed Weapon. In Cape Town, South Africa, a patient at the Groote Schuur General Hospital complained of a stomachache, felt better after the removal of a ten-inch knife which he guessed had been there ever since a brawl three years before...