Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than three years Philadelphia has been the scene of a continuous journalistic brawl. On one side are the lofty...
...ecstasies of love until the wealthy Americo-German financier is willing to marry her. Walldorf, who is described as a business man, rushes about with his wife alternately trying to pay for clothes that are being repaired, and giving lavish dinners. Monika's idea of paradise is a drunken brawl with much sitting on mirrors and with her mother and father downstairs, weeping...
Much has happened to Maurice Sterne since the barroom brawl of 1895: He studied under the late great Thomas Eakins. Lived and painted in Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, India. Spent two years in Bali 20 years ago (and produced the best paintings yet to appear from that overpainted paradise). Married and divorced the late D. H. Lawrence's friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time...
...Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire parish to be ousted by the Covenanters...
...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...