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Word: brawls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie Cope of Two Rivers. Wis. wrote his wartime friend James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney to ask if he had once taken part in a brawl in a bistro in Romorantin, France. Wrote Fighter Tunney: "How nice of you to send me such a charming letter! It must have been another Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1932 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov of Basso Feodor Chaliapin. From beginning to end he behaved like a thoroughgoing artist not in the least warped by his cinema-radio success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tibbett's Simone | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Boston Theatre, he goes down to the sea in ships. He earns his bread by bringing in salmon to a tiny fisher village somewhere in the north. Morose and violent, he strides away from the funeral of his first wife to drink barroom whiskey and brawl over a prostitute. Like another Captain Ahab, he rules his son, Kent Douglass, who has no heart for fishing...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1931 | See Source »

...Washing another jumper for the big brawl stop cut out the refreshments they get my goat stop will one supporter be enough." Signed Ghandi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Dance Committee Asked to Contribute Half Profits to Unemployed--Hollywood Star Autographs Picture for 1935 | 11/18/1931 | See Source »

...mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Dead Girls | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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