Word: brawls
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...master phiz-monger." He was just another London apprentice (his job was incising coats of arms on the gentry's silver plate), wandering about town like so many young men, knowing himself to be a genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable subject," what with the man all bloody and grimacing with pain. Hogarth made a sketch that delighted his fellow apprentices, and thus he found his life work...
Jimmy is now twice as hot for revenge as before. He trails Nicol into town, thrashes him and then pitches into Nicol's keeper, Arthur Kennedy. This brawl is suspended by the arrival, in turn, of Nicol's father (Donald Crisp), who owns all the country for miles around. He offers to pay damages for the mule train if Jimmy will just leave town. But then, where would the picture be? So Jimmy sticks around, makes mild love to Cathy O'Donnell, outfights a treacherous assailant, shoots Nicol in the hand, exposes Kennedy as a seller...
...Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows and the bad fight fixers, in full view of 60 million televiewers...
...young men often go wild, drink excessively and brawl frequently. Innocent young colleens are sometimes lured into prostitution. Observed a Roman Catholic priest in England: "They are unfitted in some ways for life outside Ireland. They know little...
...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...