Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love-sharpened eyes of Lisa his little scheme is soon apparent, but no one else suspects him, even after he has blown up two of Kravnik's prize landmarks. In spite of Lisa's pleas, he firmly intends to go on from there; but in a street brawl he gets a clout on the head that leaves him blind for life. Thwarted but still untamed, he gets Lisa to guide him to the hideaway where his explosive is stored, intending to end it all. Arrived at the spot, he bids her farewell and takes off his clothes...
...elections made the Socialists, instead of van Zeeland's Catholics, the Chamber of Deputies' biggest party. Van Zeeland's men had lost many seats to the Rexists, wild, new, Catholic-Fascist party of young Léon Degrelle. When van Zeeland resigned, he precipitated a partisan brawl among the National Union parties (Catholics, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists) who had supported his effective program of devaluation and controlled inflation...
...atmosphere typified by this brawl, New Jersey Republicans next morning went to the polls to record their preference for Presidential Candidates Borah and Landon. Governor Hoffman was candidate for no more exalted office than one of New Jersey's four delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight...
...vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...
...younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer had him "crimed" for a dirty rifle (which was actually clean) and his attempts to establish his innocence only got him into hotter water, he learned another piece of old soldier's wisdom...