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Word: brawling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belfast a Negro American soldier was stabbed to death and a white American soldier seriously wounded in a pub brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black and White | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Louis hasn't laced on a boxing glove since he began cavalry training at Fort Riley three months ago. Conn's last fight was a bare-knuckle brawl in which he broke his left hand on his father-in-law's head. But when these two fighting men go into action, ringsiders expect a dime thriller for their $40 pasteboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scrap for the Army | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...started as a party and ended as a brawl, but this Hollywood party was different: the actors behaved, the employes behaved like actors. About 4 a.m. at Errol Flynn's 32nd birthday party, the butler, lent for the occasion by Barbara Mutton, squared off with the actor's secretary and standin, who had once been a butler himself. The Hutton butler, said the Flynn standin, swung first. The Hutton butler, from his hospital bed, said no. The Flynn stand-in said the Hutton butler had called him a name. The Hutton butler remembered little. Flynn stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Brawl. In Prestonsburg, Ky., four men were jailed for fighting. One was blind, one on crutches, two had one leg each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Chomp. In Los Angeles, hospital patient Letha Mooney, speechless, explained in writing that a woman named Lollipop had bitten her tongue off in a cafe brawl. Asked just how it happened, she wrote: "I don't know. It happened so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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