Word: brawls
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...they were converted into anything but boxers. From the start they hardly bothered with anything so effete as an old-fashioned left jab. Free-swinging hooks to head and gut were what they threw. Nor was either of them beyond trying incautious righthand leads. It made a fine, bloody brawl. And DeMarco came close to finishing it in the seventh, when he clobbered the champ with a left hook to the jaw. Basilio's legs began a limber, loose-kneed dance of their own; his eyes emptied and his seconds screamed for him to go down, to take...
...bordello set of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. When not cavorting, the bims and bums heave and push at a constantly stalled romance between a popular young scientist and a pretty waif befriended by a madam. To get Doc a microscope, Cannery Row stages a raffle and fancy-dress brawl, and when the lovelorn heroine takes up despairing residence inside a boiler, they have at the lovelorn hero to fetch...
...France, where literature can be a hot front-page issue, the biggest story of the week-and the year's liveliest press brawl -raged around the blonde head of an eight-year-old poetess. Was little Minou Drouet a genius or a fraud...
Starlet Jil (A Twinkle in God's Eye) Jarmyn, 23 and a well-turned no Ibs. Prize: the affections of straight-shooting Horse Operactor Donald ("Red Ryder") Barry, 45, who, true to the best traditions of the Wild West, took no side in the ladies' brawl. Dropping around to Red's house, unannounced, at 11 a.m. for a spot of coffee. Jil was startled to find Susan in bed wearing blue and white pajamas. Barry, in maroon pajamas, suggested that Jil's visit was untimely. It was. After that, declared Jil, Susan came at her with...
...book is intriguing primarily because it is a good mystery story, with the who-done-it given away on the first page. Marlowe's supposed murder in a tavern brawl has troubled historians ever since the record of the inquest was located in 1925. Not until then did scholars learn that Marlowe was stabbed in the presence of three men--all notorious-spies--just before he was to go on trial, and perhaps on the rack, for atheism. Questions immediately arose over the accuracy of the inquest. Could Marlowe have died instantly from the wound described? Why was the confessed...