Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York circa 1840. When Huguenine's One & Only International Circus comes to town, Chad joins it as roustabout. He takes a fancy to Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour), the high rider, but marries Albany's understudy (Linda Darnell). He slugs it out in a free-for-all brawl with a rival circus, takes over the ringmaster's duties when Owner Huguenine falls ill, quarrels with his wife, leaves her, soon returns in contrition. That is about...
...shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information we run a respectful joint in here we dont allow no blows struck some...
...group rushed Photographer Mydans. He stood his ground, snapped them, got cracked on the back of the neck.* Now the crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There...
Nursing hurt feelings, Dubinsky next day announced that no official in A. F. of L. had called to ask about his condition, but that Philip Murray and Sidney Hill man had made solicitous inquiries from Atlantic City. Asked whether the brawl would be made a matter for official consideration, President Green said lightly: "That's just personal. It has nothing to do with...
...blank registration card he had attached a notice: "The undersigned will not serve in any Army or Navy as long as Roosevelt is dictator of the U. S. A." Tomas Godina, a U. S. born Mexican who had registered in Texas and later got hurt in a brawl, died hoping that other good men would not think he had dodged the draft. A Danish-born vagrant in Valhalla, N. Y., a wandering hitchhiker, a speeding motorist in Chicago, were caught without registration cards, held for Federal investigation...