Word: brawls
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...tabloid Los Angeles Mirror and its morning sister the Times like nothing better than a free-swinging Hollywood brawl. Last week the papers got just what they wanted; across Page One the Mirror splashed the headline: BRAWL OVER MARION DAVIES. What was even better, they had a clean beat. The Times and Mirror were tipped off by none other than a friend of onetime Cinemactress Marion Davies herself. Rival Hearst-papers hushed up the story because one of the brawlers was the chain's publisher, William R. Hearst...
...wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating. Next morning young Philip Murray was fired for "engaging in a brawl on company property." To his surprise, the 600 miners in town walked out on strike in his defense, then elected him president of their United Mine Workers local. The strike was broken, and a sheriff's squad put Phil Murray on a train for Pittsburgh and told him not to come back. "I've never had a doubt in my mind since...
Local merchants are fearful for plate-glass windows, and bartenders are checking broken glass insurance in preparation for the annual brawl...
...minute, said both sides, would see the start of a second honeymoon. Last week, in the theoretical privacy of the party's 51st annual conference at Morecambe, a Lancashire seaside resort familiar to many a honeymooner, the pent-up emotions in both factions exploded in a headline-making brawl...
...serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...