Word: brawls
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...Frenchy' ") was much like the end. He was born hard by the cribs of New Orleans' tough and fabled Storyville. When Author Lomax met him in 1938, he was pounding the piano in a dingy Washington nightspot. That same year, Jelly Roll was stabbed in a brawl there, and he died broke in Los Angeles...
...actress fervently hoped that the marriage would end "the unwarranted persecution by the international press which has made our life hell by destroying our privacy." Only the week before, during one of her rare excursions from her apartment, Rossellini had had a brawl with photographers waiting to snap them. Complained Ingrid: "I cannot even take my baby out of this house because I know there will be a battery of photographers badgering us. I cannot even go to take a peep at my baby on the terrace because [of the] photographers...
...threatened suicide because he refused to marry her, and when he tried to disarm her, she had shot him in the finger. He was drinking more & more, and throwing his weight around when he did. He had exiled himself from Norway after almost killing a man in a drunken brawl...
...Company He Keeps. In Nashville, Judge Charles Gilbert advised a recurrent defendant, again brought into court after a razor brawl, to avoid trouble by staying out of bad company, was told: "I'd like to, judge, but I haven't got enough money to get a divorce...
...worn man, seriously ill, last week quietly injected himself into Washington's wild-swinging brawl over the State Department. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' leading expert on foreign policy, had been absent from the Senate floor for six weeks. Slowly recuperating from a lung operation (TIME, Oct. 10), he was forced to spend long hours in bed every day. While he was out of action, and partly because of his absence, the nation's bipartisan foreign policy had gone...