Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strong as an ox in a fight (he weighs over 200 lb.). Acosta got into many a drunken brawl. When he was fined $10 for public intoxication in 1933, his estranged wife paid that sum to save him from jail. In 1934 he was arrested again, given three months. For all his difficulties with the law, oldtime pilots still rated him top, considered him ''just a big, easygoing fellow with a genius for flying which cannot be used in these regulated days...
...them, declared Nazis with more exuberance than exactitude, was "the head of the first Jew ever decapitated in German history." Otherwise insignificant, Jew Solly Epstein and equally inconsequent Gentile Hans Zeigler were sentenced to death for the Nazi crime of "watching" outside the flat of Horst Wessel during the brawl on Jan. 14, 1930 in which that Nazi martyr was shot by a Communist. The fact that...
Divorced. Mrs. Carolyn Dennett Lockwood who, with her husband and two other U. S. citizens, was imprisoned for eight weeks in Majorca in 1933 after a brawl with a civil guard (TIME, July 24. 1933 et seq.); from Clinton Benedict Lockwood. artist; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty, misconduct...
...frightened cries of passengers in a Boston bus as eleven pistol shots thudded into its side. Looting followed the smashing of more than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their guns. Five robbers were shot, one fatally. In a wholly irrelevant brawl, a white man was so badly beaten by Negroes that he died within 72 hours. With their streets swarming with police afoot, in squad cars and on horseback, the Harlem Merchants Association wildly telegraphed Governor Lehman at Albany for National Guardsmen...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences now exists mainly for an annual banquet at which its 700 members can gorge, guzzle and gratify their egomania by awarding prizes for meritorious cinema performances. Last month it looked as if this year's banquet might degenerate into an open brawl. Cliques in the Academy objected to the six nominations for best performances because Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, George Arliss and others were omitted. The Awards Committee quickly changed its rules to permit members to "write in" their votes, regardless of nominations. Last week, at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles...